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In article <6307@cps3xx.UUCP> gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes:
>From article <25ccd167.2d5d@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, by jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck):
>> I have an 80 mb disk, and DOS 4.01, and have never loaded share.  So far
>> I have had no problems.  The purpose of share is supposed to be to support
>> file and record locking in a multiuser situation.
> 

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.

Somewhere on the net I vaguely recall seeing some guru from Microsoft
explaining why you need Share for large partitions.  I didn't really follow
what he said, but probably it is better to leave well enough alone, and
not try to disable Share for large partitions!

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John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
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