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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier)
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Date: 30 Jan 91 23:36:24 GMT
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roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton) writes:

>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.

No, it applies only to DOS 4.0x+ (which is referred to as "DOS bug.oh"
around here...)