Subj : Files on LAN.
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Dan Egli
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 12:56 am

Hey Gerald,

12 Jul 04 19:20, you wrote to mark lewis:

 GM> Hello Mark,

 GM>     Responding to a post in the LAN area:
 GM>     On Saturday July 10 2004 at 06:24,
 GM>     Gerald Miller [1:342/512] wrote to Mark Lewis,
 GM>     about: Files on LAN.

 GM> [ ...snip... ]

 GM>>>> I made the modifications to the 4DOS.INI file, and I will put

 GM>>>>     Install=C:\Dos\SHARE.EXE /f:4096 /l:25

 GM>>>> back in the config.sys file, reboot and see how FrontDoor does
 GM>>>> with these changes.

 ML>>> ok...

 GM>> I made the changes and will try the SHARE thing again...

 GM> Despite making the changes to the 4DOS.INI file and loading SHARE via
 GM> config.sys, I am still getting the 'Access denied
 GM> "G:\QWOK\00C50BFB.000"' error message and FrontDoor doesn't get past
 GM> the creation of that log file.

OK. G:\QWOK tells me it's not 4DOS. Let's try this. Sounds like you're using 
DOS. Reboot, at the "starting MS-DOS" prompt, hit F5. That should skip 
config.sys and autoexec.bat. Now delete that file.  Now reboot, and hit F8 at 
the prompt. Step through like 4 or 5 commands, and say no to all of the rest. 
Is there a new file like that? If so one of the commnads you ran is making it. 
If not, repeat, but run the fist 9 or 10 commands. Check again. Repeat till 
either the system boots completely, or the file appears. If the system boots 
completly, then it's something outside of autoexec.bat and config.sys making 
those files.

 GM> I tried three times "00C50BFB, 3C82F4B9, 091BA20C" and the file
 GM> extension was always the same -- .000; so I don't think it is the 4DOS
 GM> swap file because if I understood the directions in the help file, the
 GM> swap file would have an extension of .4SW   ???
No, it would have a .000 extension for the primary shell, .001 for 1st shell 
beyond primary (2ndary), .002 for the next shell beyond primary (tertiary, or 
2nd secondary), and so forth, to a theoretical max of .999.


 GM> Since SHARE is an executable command, could I insert it into my
 GM> Windows BTM file?  If I could do that, I could probably use
 GM> TurboPower's MARK (before I load SHARE) to mark that section of memory
 GM> and then use their RELEASE (to clear the memory space after Windows is
 GM> finished).  Do you have any suggestions or opinions in this regard?

Only if you're VERY careful. Share doesn't like being unloaded. If anything is 
using share when you unload it, they will throw hissy fits.

-- Dan

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