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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier)
Message-ID: <8975@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 15:32:07 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.230226.4874@hub.cs.jmu.edu> <5489@husc6.harvard.edu> <140@thor.UUCP> <1078@rna.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <1078@rna.UUCP> marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson) writes:
>>If you have a large partition and don't load SHARE, you're
>>living on borrowed time.  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 (and also puts out a message indicating that it happened, I
>>believe).  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.

>YIKES!!!
>I have had problems with SHARE on my 126Mbyte disk when running Windows 3.0.
>So, I removed SHARE from my config, and have noticed no other problems.
>But I am concered about this comment "living on borrowed time"!  It doesn't
>seem to need SHARE to run fine, and with SHARE loaded, Windows has problems.

You are only "running on borrowed time" if you have programs that 
write to files using FCBs. "Modern" programs don't use FCBs, so if your
software is all recent you are probably safe.

On the other hand, here is the small program that replaces SHARE. Use it
for a while and see what breaks (failures are graceful -- you can't open
or create any files using FCBs).

section 1 of uuencode 3.16 of file noshare.com    by R.E.M.

begin 644 noshare.com
MZ0@`]`$`````"@"\FA_'!@4!F!^]_A^)+@<!_.@Z`+@`3,TA`````(#\#W0*`
M@/P6=`4N_RZ``+#_SUY86EL>CMNT)<TA'__FM#7-(8G8C,/#N@H`N``QS2'H>
M2@`'3D]32$%21>A1`.@\``M">2!4;VT@06QM>>@_`+@A`.C)_Z,D`8D>)@&ZB
M)`%2NH``4KH6`%+H40",R%"ZA`!2NB$`4NB7_^FK_UN*!S#D0U-0`<-86E.)=
MT^DA`+@-`.@)`+@*`.D#``$``*+&`;1`N0$`NL8!BQ[$`<TAPXG!B=J+'L0!;
3M$#-(<-;65]>XP:,V([`\Z3_XZ3_F
``
end
sum -r/size 53542/375 section (from "begin" to "end")
sum -r/size 4841/244 entire input file

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Tom Almy
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