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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: NOSHARE.COM - a SHARE substitute
Message-ID: <5484@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 15:28:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.230226.4874@hub.cs.jmu.edu> <5489@husc6.harvard.edu> <140@thor.UUCP>
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In article <140@thor.UUCP> scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
<                     ... On the other hand, there's a small piece of
<public domain software that replaces SHARE -- rather than making the FCB
<functions work right, it intercepts the calls and returns a failure
<status ... That way you don't trash the disk and it takes up a whole lot
<less space.  I don't remember the name, but it's undoubtedly on SIMTEL.

It is called NOSHARE.COM, and it does NOT output a message when causing
an FCB operation to fail -- the attempt simply fails, and the application
usually complains about "disk full" or something equally silly.  It has 
only caught two programs on my system, both of which were INSTALLation
programs for something else.  For those, I simply load SHARE.EXE temporarily.

I did NOT write this, but it works just fine for me under MSDOS 4.01.

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