Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: What's all this about SHARE ?
Keywords: SHARE FCBs
Message-ID: <6520@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 20 Apr 91 17:12:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.211335.21474@odin.corp.sgi.com> <cchapman.670858093@romeo> <1991Apr16.030624.25235@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1991Apr16.231456.4086@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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<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).

Such as the COMP (FILECOMP?) compare command that comes with MSDOS.

Rather than running SHARE, one can always save memory & keep some protections
in place by using my .sig instead.
-- 
MLORD@BNR.CA  Ottawa, Ontario *** Personal views only ***
begin 644 NOTSHARE.COM ; Free MS-DOS utility - use instead of SHARE.EXE
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<^K@A-<TAB1Z``(P&@@"ZA`"X(27-(?NZE@#-)P#-5
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