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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
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Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier)
Message-ID: <OTTO.91Jan29194929@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 29 Jan 91 18:49:29 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
   the newer functions that were supposed to replace them, they are still
   widely used.  If you have a large partition and don't load SHARE, you're
   living on borrowed time.

Does this mean that the COMMAND.COM delete command will trash the hard disk
if SHARE is not loaded ?  And they don't say this in the manual ?
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