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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
Keywords: DOS 4.01 Share
Message-ID: <25ce5386.4b8b@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 6 Feb 90 04:33:10 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>In some article I wrote:
>>it loads SHARE whether you like it or not.

>Someone else commented:
>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...

I received a helpful e-mail message from Michael Kersenbrock at Tektronix.
He claims that if you have a shell= command in your config.sys file, it
will use the path that you give to look for SHARE.EXE.  If it doesn't
find it there, it looks in the root of the boot drive.  In my case,
I have a shell=c:\dos\command.com /p /e:1024 line.  And I have SHARE.EXE
in the \dos directory.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.