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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
Keywords: DOS 4.01 Share
Message-ID: <5073@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 00:06:37 GMT
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Reply-To: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
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In article <25cdc295.3d1c@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>
>I may have spoken too soon.  Now it is true that I have not put the SHARE
>command into my AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  But yesterday I downloaded SYSID47 from
>chyde.uwasa.fi, and when I ran it, it told me that SHARE was loaded!  Looking
>in my DOS manual, it says, "Share is automatically loaded if you have a
>hard disk which is greater than 32 megabytes in a single partition".  So
>apparently, if you have a disk > 32 mb but with no partitions > 32 mb, DOS
>just warns you, but doesn't do anything.  If you have a partition > 32 mb,
>it loads SHARE whether you like it or not.

Very interesting.  I have a PS/2 55sx with a 60mb drive and DOS 4.01 (well, I
used to - switched to 3.31, though).  The whole drive is configured as one
partition.  I kept on getting the warnings about SHARE, and since I run MS
Windows/386 with several standard apps at once, I thought it might be a good
idea anyway.  So, I put the line in my config.sys to load share.

How does it load it automatically?  Do you keep DOS and all of its files
(specificall SHARE.EXE) in the root dir?  I have my copy of DOS in a sub-dir.
Maybe it would load share by itself if it could find it...

Comments?


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