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Organization: Inst. of Evolutionary Physiology & Biochemistry,
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From: pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su (Pavel Ozerski)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 97 13:22:29 +0300
Reply-To: pavel AT insect DOT ief DOT spb DOT su
Subject: SHARE.EXE: a bug again!
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Although the famous bug in SHARE.EXE is fixed in the last update of NWDOS 7
and in OpenDOS, this SHARE is as before not fully MS-DOS compatible!!! Well,
this bug appears seldom, but it is really!!!

Symptom:
after the compiling of any source file with FPK-PASCAL compiler (ver. 0.9.22)
(free 32-Bit Pascal compiler for DJGPP available from
ftp://ftp.uni-freiburg.de/pub/pc/msdos/fpk-pascal) this source file cannot be
renamed by DOS, opened by MultiEdit etc ("FILE SHARING CONFLICT"). This
appearance occurs under NWDOS 7(15) and OpenDOS 7.01 but not under MS-DOS (6.22).

Cause: in the meantime unknown. I couldn't repeat this effect using other
32-Bit programs including my own tests. The source code of FPK-Pascal is
also available on this FTP site but it is very large and I have no time to
debug it now. But that is most likely a conflict between SHARE and DJGPP file
management because the 16-bit version of the compiler compiled from the same
source code does not cause this bug (but I didn't test the conditional switches
in the compiler source!!!).

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