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Date:	Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:35:23 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: MS Word stopped working...???

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Steven Levine writes:

> Try creating at c:\dos directory and put a dummy share.exe there too.
>
> That's about the only thing left to try. I am assuming that you have
> already tried putting a proper reference to share.exe in autoexec.bat. If
> you recall, the prior attempts you posted were all syntactically
> incorrect.

Steven, here is our prior exchange:
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>3. placed "load D:\os2\system\share.exe" in Warp's autoexec.bat (BTW, the
> path statement in autoexec.bat already included D:\os2\system and C:, in
> that order)

Why are you using load? It's not a valid DOS command. <<<<<

>4. tried "loadhigh append D:\os2\system\share.exe" in Warp's autoexec.bat

Why are you doing this?
Append is not a valid option for loadhigh. <<<<<

FWIW, anything you can do in autoexec.bat you can do from a DOS VDM
command line. You should be doing these experiments from the command line
so you can see what's failing and what's not.
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As I also previously stated, trying to issue d:\os2\system\share.exe from a
dos fullscreen prompt results in an "invalid DOS program" message.

So what do you consider to be a "valid DOS command"?

>>file, it just says to run scandisk under windows to fix the problem.
>>But, scandisk under Windows95 will not run to completion, it keeps
>>starting over from scratch after a running a few minutes, saying another
>
> You probably don't know you need to run scandisk from Safe Mode. Try it
> that way.

OK, I'll try, if I can figure out how to get Win95 to boot that way, and how
to get it back to normal afterwards (seems to me I've had this problem
before).

>
>
>>I am beginning to wonder if Word somehow requires the share.exe program
>>to be installed in a C: FAT partition with a 16k cluster size.... which
>>I cannot do because there is not enough room in a FAT partition w/16k
>>clusters (it is limited to 1mb). I may experiment by hiding the Win95
>>partition and creating a small C: partion with FAT and 16k clusters and
>>putting share.exe in that partition.
>
> I wouldn't bother. When you are running Word under WinOS2, most of this
> is hidden. Your C: drive could be HPFS and Word would run, as long as it
> believed share was loaded.

I think so too, but I'm running out of ideas for things to try to make it
believe share.exe is loaded.

Wayne

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