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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Thanks and another question about DOS 4.01
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Date: 25 Apr 91 16:27:09 GMT
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garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin) writes:

>   Anyway, 4.01 is up and running just fine now, except for one thing:
>every time I boot up it tells me that I should be using SHARE.EXE with
>'large media' (my hard drive is 85 meg. or so).  The FM says that
>share.exe is to make sure that DOS doesn't do writes to swapped
>floppies, but I can't swap my hard drive.  What purpose does share.exe
>serve wrt my hard drive?  I've seen replacements for share.exe (the
>3-line notshare.com comes to mind) - why are these better (and how can
>notshare be better when it's _so_ much smaller)?

This is a FAQ, but basically, SHARE fixes FCB calls so that they work
right, while the cheapie replacements simply cause them to fail.
Which is prefereable is a matter of personal taste, but either is better
than having them *appear* to succeed.
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