> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:56:25 -0400
> From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Unless much has changed in dosemu, why not just run share. I know that
> several versions ago I was running share.exe, and while I don't know for
> sure that it was doing anything it was at least telling programs that it was.
> Whats wrong with using the real thing?
The disadvantage may be - and it must be carefully tested:
SHARE may catch lock requests and does not pass them to DosEmu,
so if you have more than one DosEmu session and run in them
applications which use record locking, these locks are ignored,
leading to data damage if they were really needed.
Q: if SHARE.EXE is loaded into DosEmu, do record lock requests
get to the DosEmu, or their servicing ends on the SHARE?
Seems testing SHARE presence by INT 2Fh, AX=1000h is suitable
for file server, not for application which just needs use it;
test by setting record lock is suitable for the application,
and the only problem with DosEmu is that it rejects the lock
request if the file was not open in sharing mode.
Jerzy
