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LANtastic Network Operating System Compatibility Bulletin
Product Reviewed: OnTime v2.22 & OnTime for Windows v1.25
Classification: Network Scheduling Software
Date: 4/14/93
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Compatibility Statement
Campbell Services Inc.'s OnTime v2.22 and OnTime for Windows v1.25
(both network versions) are compatible with LANtastic NOS version
4.xx and 5.xx.
Product Overview
OnTime lets you schedule appointments and maintain the calendar for
a workgroup. The main screen of OnTime displays a day planner and
a narrow box that shows at a glance occupied blocks of time during
the day. Most of the program's functions can be accessed through a
handful of push-button keys at the bottom of the screen, which
includes adding and deleting appointments, adding and attaching
notes, rescheduling appointments, searching for keywords, printing
a calendar and replacing the day planner with either a week-at-a-
glance or a month-at-a-glance view. In addition to appointments, it
also allows you to maintain to-do lists. To-do items can be
prioritized and set to automatically roll over until marked
completed.
The network version supports group scheduling (on a group
calendar), including notification to the individual that an
appointment has been added to his or her calendar. Each user can
maintain the access rights of other users to his/her private
calendar, and s/he can belong to different groups to gain access to
the group calendars. OnTime produces tri-fold/duplex reports that
combines different formats and views of the schedule on one page.
Product Installation Notes
OnTime comes with a slim manual which covers installation on LANs
in general, but a document explaining how to set up OnTime on a
LANtastic network is available on request from Campbell Services'
Tech. Support. Installation is very automated, and the Windows
version offers to install OnTime in your list of Windows programs
loaded at startup and modify your win.ini.
OnTime must be installed onto a drive that can be accessed by all
users and must have the same drive designator for all users,
including the server. However, a server with files required to
initialize or shutdown Windows should not remap any of its local
drives to network drives, or else Windows will lock up on the logo
screen during initialization. Instead the DOS SUBST command should
be used, e.g. SUBST d: c:\ontime.
Executable files in the \ONTIME directory must be set to read-only
by the DOS ATTRIB command. After installation, you will need to add
users to the system through the SETUPNET(for DOS) or WSETUPN(for
Windows) utility. Each user's access can be password'ed. DOS SHARE
is required on the server but not the workstations.
Memory requirement for OnTime's TSR, OTLOAD, is 15k when in
background, 380k when in foreground. It cannot be loaded high with
the DOS loadhigh command, or with any of the popular memory
managers.
Product Execution Notes
To invoke OnTime, type ONTIME or OTLOAD for DOS, or click on the
icon set up to run OTWIN.exe for Windows. It will then prompt you
for the user name. The loader will swap itself to EMS memory if
available. It was noticed that OnTime for Windows' alarm tunes may
not play to completion when running in Windows. This is due to a
minor problem with the LANtastic redirector. A workaround is also
available which needs to turn off network bleeping altogether, but
in most cases users will not need to worry about this cosmetic
problem and the impact to the usage of the product is minimal.
There is a known problem for OnTime for Windows running on a
LANtastic network (internal tracking number T01870). When running
OnTime for Windows on a workstation and the server unexpectedly
goes down (due to power outage, rebooting, etc.), the workstation
returns Windows' "The network has become unstable" screen. It may
also be locked up as a result. Campbell Services and Artisoft are
still investigating the problem.
Version History
3/31/92: OnTime (DOS) v2.0 and OnTime for Windows v1.0 tested for
compatibility with LANtastic v4.1.
3/15/93: OnTime (DOS) v2.22 and OnTime for Windows v1.25 tested
for compatibility with LANtastic v5.0.
Vendor Information
Campbell Services, Inc. 21700 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 1070,
Southfield, MI 48075, U.S.A. Tel: (313)559-5955
ARTISOFT, Inc. makes no warranties as to the completeness or
accuracy of this document. LANtastic is a trademark of ARTISOFT,
Inc. Brand names, company names, and product names are trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective companies.