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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: What's all this about SHARE ?
Summary: Living without SHARE
Keywords: SHARE FCBs
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.231456.4086@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 03:14:56 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.211335.21474@odin.corp.sgi.com> <cchapman.670858093@romeo> <1991Apr16.030624.25235@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1991Apr16.030624.25235@watserv1.waterloo.edu>,
ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ( Ice ) writes: 
> In article <cchapman.670858093@romeo> cchapman@msd.gatech.edu 
> (Chuck H. Chapman) writes:
>>
>>You also need SHARE if you have a hard disk partition that's greater than
>>33 MB using DOS 4.0 and the standard fdisk that comes with it.
>>
> What can/will happen if you load win3 without share? Anything nasty?

The purpose of SHARE is to provide ancient FCB support on large-volume hard
drives.  Since few if any programs use FCBs these days, you can probably get
along without it (unless you are running an old program, designed to run under
DOS 1.1, in a DOS window).
 
Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)