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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3 (now SHARE)
Message-ID: <8021@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 18:45:53 GMT
References: <38144@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <2943.26d077ac@cc.helsinki.fi> <1990Aug21.164046.19087@lotus.com> <2209@cernvax.UUCP> <marshall.651350110@wind55>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <marshall.651350110@wind55> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes:
>markus@cernvax.UUCP (markus baertschi) writes:
>
>>  SHARE.EXE was originally provided for DOS LAN support where one of it's
>>  tasks were to map the old DOS 1.x FCB calls to the newer style calls.
>>  As the DOS 4 large disk support only works with the newer file calls
>>  DOS asks you to load SHARE.EXE to map the old calls to the new calls.
>>  So, if you don't run *very* old programs you don't need SHARE, but if
>>  you want to absolutely shure you'll have to pay the price (memory).
>
>It would be nice if there was a small TSR that would display a message
>if a "*very* old program" tried a DOS 1.x FCB call.  That way I could
>run with it for a while to see if it would be a problem on my system.
>It would be even better if SHARE did it.

I can't keep out of this any longer.

And here it is. The much malligned (even by me) TSR, NOSHARE.COM!
This program does nothing SHARE does, but then it is much smaller. It
simply causes the DOS 1.x FCB calls to fail gracefully. You can't run
DOS 1.x applications, but then they can't harm the system either!

Use at your own risk (and as was posted by a Microsoft employee, use
of NOSHARE is not recommended, but what do they know? :-) I should point
out that I wrote NOSHARE, but then again, maybe I should keep it a secret.

section 1 of uuencode 3.16 of file noshare.com    by R.E.M.

begin 644 noshare.com
MZ0@`]`$`````"@"\FA_'!@4!F!^]_A^)+@<!_.@Z`+@`3,TA`````(#\#W0*`
M@/P6=`4N_RZ``+#_SUY86EL>CMNT)<TA'__FM#7-(8G8C,/#N@H`N``QS2'H>
M2@`'3D]32$%21>A1`.@\``M">2!4;VT@06QM>>@_`+@A`.C)_Z,D`8D>)@&ZB
M)`%2NH``4KH6`%+H40",R%"ZA`!2NB$`4NB7_^FK_UN*!S#D0U-0`<-86E.)=
MT^DA`+@-`.@)`+@*`.D#``$``*+&`;1`N0$`NL8!BQ[$`<TAPXG!B=J+'L0!;
3M$#-(<-;65]>XP:,V([`\Z3_XZ3_F
``
end
sum -r/size 53542/375 section (from "begin" to "end")
sum -r/size 4841/244 entire input file

>I really hate SHARE.

Me too. I want it all for myself!

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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