Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier) Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 11:52:20 GMT References: <5489@husc6.harvard.edu> <140@thor.UUCP> <1078@rna.UUCP> <1991Feb13.130613.13467@csc.canberra.edu.au> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Distribution: comp Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au's message of 13 Feb 91 13:06:13 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jyu.fi In article <1991Feb13.130613.13467@csc.canberra.edu.au> act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner) writes: [very informative article...] An IBM Dos programmer is alleged to have said that even today Dos itself still uses some of the old FCB's for some unspecified internal disk functions! God help us, Microsoft sure didn't. Dos still runs some original Dos 1.1 file access code that requires Share in order to some day wipe out your hard disk. [...] Well, I know that DEL, the COMMAND.COM builtin uses FCB wildcards to get the job done quickly. Does anyone with a large hard disk care to try this ? Just remove SHARE.EXE from your \DOS directory and reboot (you should get a warning message "Share should be loaded"), then delete files in a directory you know is beyond the 32M barrier (note that you might not have such -- many disk organizers move all directories adjecent to the root directory -- use a disk doctor program to check where the directory is located). If your hard disk gets trashed, you will know that this FCB stuff is true :-) -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (USR HST/V.32, 24h/d) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */