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Article #42196Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE
From: Marshall L. Buhl
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 17:13
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 17:13
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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 -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@wind55.seri.gov Senior Computer Engineer VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 and SHARE.EXE Message-ID: <1990Feb12.171352.19769@seri.gov> Date: 12 Feb 90 17:13:52 GMT References: <1232@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <25ccd167.2d5d@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <1990Feb12.163130.18787@cec1.wustl.edu> Sender: news@seri.gov (news [NO CHARGE]) Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 22