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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: share.exe and large media
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Date: 5 Sep 90 22:01:56 GMT
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In <442@beartrk.beartrack.com> cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer) writes:

     In order to stay compatible with users of ver 1.0, some authors
     continued to use FCB's...  If one of these programs is run in a
     partition larger than 32 megs. it will corrupt the FAT and make
     all data in that partition unavalible.  Programming to prevent
     this damage is included in SHARE.EXE along with other code for use
     with shared files.

Would it be fair to say, then, that MS-DOS has a serious disk-
corrupting bug, and SHARE.EXE is the bug fix?  A program that goes
strictly through the MS-DOS system calls should *never* cause FAT
corruption if the operating system is working correctly.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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