Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 20:02:35 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: Thank you (Was: Re: More on that Word 6.0c problem) To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com Reply-to: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Message-id: <83B4BD2446@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: bulk On 08 May 1997, 'randir' wrote: Although there are sure some problems of NWDOS/OpenDOS' SHARE-support compared to MS-DOS/PC-DOS, I'd like to say, that under Novell DOS and OpenDOS, SHARE is not part of the kernel, but is installed by SHARE. Older DR DOS versions had built-in SHARE-support (which could be disabled), and the external SHARE-utility has been only a compatibility dummy and configuration tool for the built-in SHARE-support. I think, under MS-DOS/PC-DOS, most of the SHARE-code is part of the kernel, so one actually has to install SHARE.EXE under Novell DOS and OpenDOS to expect similar results as under MS-DOS/PC-DOS. Looking at SYSVARS, Novell DOS/OpenDOS appears to only fake the MS-DOS/PC-DOS SHARE hooks, but does not actually use them. There is another set of SHARE-hooks, available via DR DOS INTVARS. (Details are in Ralf's queue for ca. 3/4 year now, I hope they finally show up with INTER54+ ;-) ). I must admit, that by now I have not proved this by looking at the OpenDOS source code. > 2.) OpenDOS requires a lot more configuration than is > pleasing. I think a list of all these silly configuration > issues dealing with OD's extended Memory & File access > functionality is needed.. Yep. For those of you with a fair understanding of the German language, please have a look at NWDOSTIP.TXT from my MPDOSTIP.ZIP (see my web-page below). It's already discussed there in full details... ;-) BTW, I'm still looking for translators to come out with an English version of this file... If we'd find enough people to devide the work-load downto acceptable small jobs for each, we could have it rather soon. Matthias -------------------------------------------------------------------- Snail mail: Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany New eMail : Web : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html --------------------------------------------------------------------