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First post, by Harry Potter

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Hi! I have a Win3.1 emulation running in DOSBox, and a Win3.1 program I just installed requires SHARE.EXE to be loaded before it runs. Is SHARE available in DOSBox? If so, how do I use it?

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Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

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it's not available.
you can use fakeshare which works with win3.1 stuff, although if you need the functionality itself, you have to look at a different program.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Errius

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I could not find Fakeshar when I last looked for it, but did find a similar program that does the same thing, called Noshare. I uploaded it at the end of this thread:

Help loading fakeshar.com

I successfully got Office 4.3 to run with this.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Dominus

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Fakeshar has been in the Windows 3.1x guide for a while now 😉
(Though I hope the download is still there)

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