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From: town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with SHARE
Message-ID: <6030002@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 20:06:54 GMT
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Adam Goldberg writes:

>Er, SHARE sometimes does some really nasty things (like trash your FAT).  There
>is a pgrm called NOSHARE.EXE available at wuarchive and probably simtel20
>which in effect does the same thing as SHARE, but safely.

The NOSHARE.EXE program certainly DOES NOT do the same thing as SHARE.  The
main thing SHARE does (in relation to large partitioned hard drives) is to
allow old programs which were written using FCBs (File Control Blocks) to
work correctly (ie not mess your file system up).  NOSHARE.EXE causes said
programs to terminate when they try to use a FCB.  Although this has the same
effect (ie.  your file system doesn't get corrupted), it definitely is not
doing the same thing.


>(for a detailed explaination of why, mail me)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do tell!


Brian (Never had SHARE trash my FAT either!) Town