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From: north@manta.NOSC.MIL (Mark H. North)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Thanks and another question about DOS 4.01
Message-ID: <1954@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 2 May 91 00:06:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.193839.22130@leland.Stanford.EDU> <9397@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <9397@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>In article <1991Apr24.193839.22130@leland.Stanford.EDU> 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). [...] 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
>
>(The author of "noshare.com", the original replacement for share, speaks:)
>
>Well they are different, not necessarily better.
>
>The problem occurs when writing to a file using FCBs (an obsolete technique
>discouraged by Microsoft), when the file is more than 32 megabytes displaced
>into the drive. The disk gets corrupted. SHARE.EXE maps the FCB calls into
>acceptable "handle" calls, allowing the old application to run.
>
>The problem with this is two fold: Share takes valuable memory, and some
>programs refuse to run if it is loaded (the primary purpose of share is
>to maintain file sharing in network applications).
>
>NOSHARE (and the NOTSHARE reverse-engineered rewrite -- it's even smaller
>because it frees the environment segment) take a different tact. When a
                                                            ^^^^>
I think you mean tack. Anyway, if you're the Tom Almy who invented
CapsLock --> Cntrl I'm sure you know what you're talking about it's the
best thing since sliced bread. Where can I send a contribution?

Mark