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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do large devices need SHARE?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 19:56:52 GMT
References: <28733@shamash.cdc.com> <26120002@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> <2620@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <59815@microsoft.UUCP> <7253@chorus.fr>
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In article <7253@chorus.fr> mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) writes:
>In article <59815@microsoft.UUCP>, steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>%% If you have large media and don't load SHARE, you run the risk of having an
>%% ill-behaved application trash your hard disk. [...]

>I have made some simple tests and get the conclusion that SHARE is looked
>for in the place from which COMMAND.COM is loaded. [...]

You can rename SHARE to SHARE.FOO to keep it from loading.

The following tiny TSR, NOSHARE.COM causes ill-behaved applications (those
that attempt to open files using fcbs) to fail without trashing the
hard disk. NOSHARE doesn't mess around with file sharing, so programs that
refuse to run with share loaded will work.

This program has been officially condemned by Microsoft, and if you use it
you are using it at your own risk. SHARE is a mysterious program that
Microsoft doesn't seem to want to share its insight about, so it might do
more damage protection that I don't know about.

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

begin 644 noshare.com
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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!;
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``
end
sum -r/size 53542/375 section (from "begin" to "end")
sum -r/size 4841/244 entire input file


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