🚀 go-pugleaf

Lordy I hope this ain't an FAQ... the last thing I need right now is
a ton of flame mail.

I'm building a dbms using a non-standard engine (Citadel's CBase), and
it won't run without share installed. OK, no problem, the app. is going
to run in LAN environments anyway so what does it matter? Well, I don't
normally load share, so what I've been experiencing is something of a
surprise to me. First off, I was told that join and share don't get along
well. Second, ever since share was loaded, with or without a join active,
the FAT on the primary drive (C:) gets scrambled at odd times. Cross-
linked files, invalid cluster allocations, all that good stuff. Take
share off, the problems seem to go away. I'm using MS-DOS 3.3 on one of
the dev. systems, and I don't think it's realistic to insist that a
commercial product only run on DOS 5.0 or DR-DOS 6.0. It's the 3.3
machine that's having all the grief. I have a modest technical library
with the standard items (Duncan's book, DOS tech. ref., etc.) and I
know how to get at share via the multiplex interrupt, but nowhere can
I find any technical info. which describes its behaviour in sufficient
detail to allow me to diagnose this wierdness. Also, running the DOS
version of "strings" on the share executable doesn't turn up a version
number. All I know is that it came with the version of MS-DOS 3.3 that
I have.
 
So, what to do? I don't know, short of dissassembling share to see how
it really works. Any ideas, positive suggestions, or references to
tech. info would be greatly appreciated. Hold the flames, thank you :-).
In the continued interests of net.bandwidth.harmony, please respond via
e-mail. IF I get more than one or two responses, and IF this is not
an FAQ, I'll summarize and post back in a couple of weeks. Also, note
the follow-up line in the header.

Thanks.

-John

ps. the sooner I can get this resolved, the better. The project is
currently in a holding pattern on account of it.


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