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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
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Date: 5 Feb 90 18:42:57 GMT
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In article <1232@shelby.Stanford.EDU> roller@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Jason Deines) writes:
>I've always been puzzled as to why DOS 4.01 insists on having SHARE.EXE
>loaded when dealing with large partitions.  All it says in the manual is
>something to the effect that "SHARE must be loaded, or unpredictable
>behavior will result".  Thing is, I've had people tell me that's a lot of
>nonsense, and that they've run without SHARE for months with no problem at
>all.
>If that's true, I've got a related question:  how do you stop DOS from
>sqawking at you about the lack of SHARE at bootup time?

DOS automatically loads share on large volumes.  If you don't want DOS to
squawk about it, put it in your CONFIG.SYS file with INSTALL.


Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley