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From: roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier)
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Date: 29 Jan 91 21:05:41 GMT
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In article <140@thor.UUCP> scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>SHARE is needed to allow the old DOS 1.0 FCB functions to work right
>on a large partition -- if it is not loaded, they wrap around and trash
>the partition.  Since they are significantly faster in some cases than


Does this warning apply to users of Compaq DOS 3.31?  (This DOS
breaks the 32M barrier.)  I've been using this DOS for some time,
and have had no disk problems with it.



Roger Fulton
roger@wrq.com