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Dosbox and share.exe

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First post, by dhunt

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I have a BBS program that requires share.exe. It doesn't appear that dosbox supports such an animal. I do realize that there are some multiplayer games that need it as well. Any ideas if this is going to be added?

Reply 1 of 5, by Dominus

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So far no one brought a game up that needs share...
If you need it you have to use a hard disk image in Dosbox. There is a fake share added to the Windows 3.x guide BUT this really only makes progeams think share is enabled, so if a program needs the functionality of share it will have bad results.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
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Reply 2 of 5, by mr_bigmouth_502

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So, what exactly does SHARE.EXE do, and why is it so hard to emulate? 🤣

Reply 3 of 5, by Dominus

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Google will tell you, maybe even vogons search...
I don't think emulating it would be too hard, it's just not needed for games.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 4 of 5, by leileilol

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Dominus wrote:

So far no one brought a game up that needs share...

Cyberbykes and Line Wars ][

Reply 5 of 5, by wd

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Won't happen, closed.