rc>> Perhaps you should check your references ?

 DN> No need to bother, Rowan. I've been working with Advanced Netware,
 DN> Netware and (the predecessor) Infoshare since 1986 and developing
 DN> multiuser code. If I didn't know about these things by now, then
 DN> there's little hope that I ever will. My experience is not just
 DN> anecdotal.

 rc>     With all due respect David, experience does not mean
 rc> that one cannot still be wrong or ill-informed about newer
 rc> versions of software. :-)


Then perhaps, Rowan, you should "check your references" as per
your own advice and quote from that rather than citing your own anecdotal
'experience'. You've done little but cloud the issue with 'maybes' because
you claim that one package on a few systems apparently works, even though
you don't really have any idea how it actually works (since you don't have
source code). You'll forgive me if I prefer to trust in what I know and
have have read over the last 10 or so years rather than simply taking your
word for it.

Here's a simple test you can try for yourself: from a (raw) DOS box logged
onto a Novell LAN without a large partition (and without explicitly loading
share), run a program which calls the INT 2Fh "install check" for
SHARE.  If it works, then SHARE support has been linked into your shell. If
it doesn't, then it demonstrates what I've said. Simple, really.

This information is current as of Netware 3.12, and is the same for both
the ODI drivers and standard IPX.OBJ shells. It probably applies to Netware
4.x, but since I've never tried it, I don't  know. In any case, NW4 is
usable via the same workstation shell software, so I doubt that support
spontaneously kicks in when logged onto a Novell 4.x server.

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