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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
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Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
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Date: 12 Feb 90 17:13:52 GMT
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jcb2647@cec1.wustl.edu (James Christopher Beard) writes:

>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.

My understanding is that if SHARE.EXE is in the root, it will automagically
load it at boot time.  Otherwise, one needs a line in the CONFIG.SYS like:

  INSTALL=[drive:][path]SHARE.EXE

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