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From: jcb2647@cec1.wustl.edu (James Christopher Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
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Date: 12 Feb 90 16:31:30 GMT
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Concerning debate about whether SHARE needs to be loaded or not to run
large disk volumes under MS-DOS v 4.01: I have never taken any steps
to load SHARE, either; it is certainly not in my CONFIG.SYS or
AUTOEXEC.BAT.  But the MS-DOS documentation indicates that the program
is loaded AUTOMATICALLY when a large partition is used.  Running "mem
/program" on the system I use, which includes a 65-MB partition, shows
that SHARE is indeed loaded.  I suspect that MS-DOS loads it
automatically, as advertised, and only squawks when and if it can't
find the code.