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In article <337c2c7d.8550721@news.nacamar.de>, puerner.tech.dok@nrw-online.de says...
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>I changed from OS/2 WARP3 (German Version) to WARP4 (German Version).
>MS WinWord 6.0 (German Version) worked alright under WARP3.
>
>Under WARP4 WinWord 6.0 asks for SHARE.EXE:
>
>- I copied SHARE.EXE from MSDOS (German) version 6. Starting WinWord
>6.0 SHARE.EXE now signals: wrong DOS version. SHARE.EXE exspects
>version 6, WARP4  indicates version 4.
>
>- I added  VSHARE.386 (from MSDOS config.sys) to WINOS2's system.ini
>without success. The message still appears.
>
>Who can give me advice?

I'm running us english versions of word 2c & word 6c.  Neither needs
share.exe nor vshare.386.  One of the changes in the update
from 6a to 6c involved elimination of any need for share.  If the
the German versions had parallel updates, then obtaining 6c
should fix the problem.  The us english 6c was provided free
on diskette from MS customer service.

-bb

Beate P=FCrner wrote:
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> I changed from OS/2 WARP3 (German Version) to WARP4 (German Version).
> MS WinWord 6.0 (German Version) worked alright under WARP3.
> =

> Under WARP4 WinWord 6.0 asks for SHARE.EXE:

Word does not need share.exe. This is a completely idiotic error
message. Make an empty \temp directory somewhere and add the lines

set tmp=3Dx:\temp
set temp=3Dx:\temp

to your autoexex.bat where x: is the drive where \temp is. (Only one of
the lines is needed, but which one?). I had this problem some years ago
and as far as I remember this fixed it.

---
Dr. Michael Bode

This message has nothing to do with the views of my employer.

Byron Bodo wrote:
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> In article <337c2c7d.8550721@news.nacamar.de>, puerner.tech.dok@nrw-online.de says...
> >
> >I changed from OS/2 WARP3 (German Version) to WARP4 (German Version).
> >MS WinWord 6.0 (German Version) worked alright under WARP3.
> >
> >Under WARP4 WinWord 6.0 asks for SHARE.EXE:
> >
[snip]

 
> I'm running us english versions of word 2c & word 6c.  Neither needs
> share.exe nor vshare.386.  One of the changes in the update
> from 6a to 6c involved elimination of any need for share.  If the
[snip]

The Canadian 6.0a does not need share. 
-- 
Mark E. Adams
University of Calgary
Warped X4
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~adams/molbio.html

In article <5lia0r$ask@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>, adams@do.not.spam.me.acs.ucalgary.ca says...
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>> I'm running us english versions of word 2c & word 6c.  Neither needs
>> share.exe nor vshare.386.  One of the changes in the update
>> from 6a to 6c involved elimination of any need for share.  If the
>[snip]
>
>The Canadian 6.0a does not need share. 

I got Michigan 6a, but installed Canuck 6c or whatever MS sent me, 
overtop immediately after installing 6a.  On the tel. to MS Canada,
I was transferred to MS USA without realizing it until I called back
to confirm the order, so I'm not sure what I got. I assumed
the Yankee & Canuck versions were the same except for packaging, but
maybe not.  Somewhere in the docs it says something about the need
for share being eliminated from 6a to 6c.

-bb

Oh, the share.exe problem?  Well, I don't come here to mention this, but I might
as well start off that way.

I got that message when I tried to load Word 6.0 into WINDOWS 95!  See, the "new"
hidden version of DOS doesn't have stuff like share.exe.  Microsoft wants you to
go out and buy the new/improved/better-than-sliced-bread Word 97.  And that's if
you are--as I've had to be because of my job--a Win95 victim.  You need to copy
"expand.exe" into a directory of your choosing by using an old DOS 6.0+ disk,
then using it to load share.exe.  MS Word will then load and you've bypassed the
need to install a piece of software that is all bells and whistles and drags its
ass even with 32 megs in the machine.

Now, the reason I came here: the atrocity I bought recently--a Barron America
AMD/Pentium 150--comes with tools for the Complete Idiot, including a CommWave
336 Pnp internal modem.  I went to install OS/2 on a 600 meg partition I created
but it could not find the modem.  Big news.  This is still Warp 3.0 I've got at
home, and in that respect it behaves like Linux: no PnP, no sound, no modem, no
nothing.

The company that manufactures CommWave modems does not have OS/2 drivers.  What a
surprise (not).  Non-PnP hardware is becoming increasingly difficult to find
anywhere.  So I have one of two alternatives: go out and get a real modem and
then try to find drivers for the oh-so-modern hardware in my system while
continue to use Warp 3.0...or going out and spending a LOT of money right now on
the new version of Warp when I have no clue as to whether it handles PnP
hardware.  I might be tempted to drop that kind of money IF I know with
reasonable certainty that I can do silly things like listen to CDs and dial my
ISP, and that my shitty hardware will be recognized.

Or is there another alternative.  ANY alternative?

BTW...advice from one who wishes he'd done this...DO NOT buy third party machines
with plug and play hardware.  Get an independent dealer to build you a machine to
your specifications.  Which means stay out of CompUSA and Computer City.

Ken Wolman
-- 
Kenneth Wolman  	Information Technology		Morgan Stanley Inc.  
750 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019			       212-762-1685
	"I let the bee go / Among the gasworks at the edge of Mantua."
					==James Wright, "The First Days"