Need to include this option in order to run a legacy application.
Normally the share option can be found in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
How can and where can I include this option.
Many thanks
George
Anywhere in your Autoexec.bat file.
It's a TSR that runs on startup.
You might want to check how much memory it consumes (mem/c|more) command to see in which order you must load it.
If you have EMM386.EXE active (an expanded memory driver), then you should also be able to load it via the LH command into upper memory.
Refer this page for more detail: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(command)
Hate to be blunt, but DosBox is not intended for non-gaming applications, and the emulation isn't accurate enough to feasibly run mission-critical software. You'd be better off looking into virtualization tools, like VMWare or Virtualbox.
Moved to Dosbox section as it is very likely a Dosbox question. Please make sure to read the forum descriptions before posting.
Share is not supported in Dosbox, it is in other forks of it. You can use fakeshare but that is... fake... and isn't safe to use.
Many thanks for all the replies received.
Share.exe alone won’t do; DOSBox’ file caching will counteract share.exe’s main purpose; exclusive access to file regions by locking.
You can try vDos (www.vdos.info), it has share built-in, and delivers reliable locking.
Jos
