Subj : Files on LAN.
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Dan Egli
Date : Sat Jul 10 2004 06:46 pm

Hey Gerald,

09 Jul 04 15:14, you wrote to mark lewis:
 GM> === Cut Begin: 4DOS.INI ===
 GM> Environment=1536
 GM> EnvFree=128
 GM> Swapping=EMS, XMS, g:\
 GM>   ;I will change the above line to the following...
 GM> ;     Swapping=EMS, XMS, None
 GM>   ;I have the following line commented out.  What is your
 GM> recommendation?
 GM> ; SwapReopen=YES
 GM> ;[NO] Reopen swap file if it is closed
 GM> ; Set to `Yes' to enable reopening
 GM> ;of the 4DOS swap file if it is closed by another program (Novell
 GM> Netware
 GM> ;drives). If an application or network generates reproducible errors
 GM> ;related to the 4DOS swap file (for example "Swap file seek failed" or
 GM> ;similar errors).
 GM> UniqueSwapName=YES ;I will change the above line to
 GM> the following...
 GM> ;     UniqueSwapName=NO
Agreed. Then it uses a standard swap name. Not really applicable if you turn 
off Disk swapping.

 GM> [Secondary]
 GM> ;Set secondaries shell directives
 GM> Swapping=XMS, EMS, None
 GM> === Cut End:   4DOS.INI ===

Sounds good off the top of my head. I don't use 4DOS/4NT anymore. I've got 
Cygwin bash installed and it works better than 4DOS/4NT ever did.

 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 with
 GM> these changes.

 GM> But, if SHARE is not really needed for WfW 3.11 (because it is loading
 GM> "device=vshare.386"), then, what's the point in putting SHARE in the
 GM> config file?  To see if my FrontDoor BTM file hangs the system, again?

vshare depends on share.exe being resident IIRC.

-- Dan

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