NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: LWP207.EXE; LWP 4.1 & 4.2 Applications Update DOCUMENT ID: TID250376 DOCUMENT REVISION: A DATE: 30AUG94 ALERT STATUS: Yellow INFORMATION TYPE: Symptom Solution README FOR: LWP207.EXE NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION: LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.2 LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.1 LAN WorkGroup 4.1 LAN WorkGroup 4.2 ABSTRACT: LWP207.EXE is recommended for all LAN WorkPlace 4.1 & 4.2 sites and all LAN WorkGroup 4.1 & 4.2 sites. It includes the latest patches for the applications in LWP/LWG 4.1 and 4.2 and "upgrades" v4.1 to v4.2 and beyond. ----------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. ----------------------------------------------------------------- {The legal use of LWP207.EXE is restricted to owners of LAN WorkPlace for DOS and owners of LAN WorkGroup.} SYMPTOM >> HOST PRESENTER - After Host Presenter is started, printer changes made through Control Panel or Print Manager, are not picked up by Host Presenter. - When printing to a PostScript printer, Landscape mode text in Bypass Printing mode is printed in very small fonts. - Opening 5 active sessions hangs the workstation. - Continuous printing, in landscape mode, on HP Laserjet printers, prints error message "Unable to obtain requested font" - With UNIX editor VI, screen flashes cause a loss of system resources. - Printing to "Generic/Text Only on FILE" inserts 14 \n characters after a line. - Not interpreting sequence Esc?25hESC22;0*x correctly. Therefore, the first line of the display ends up on the twenty-third line instead. - A text line longer than 132 characters, using Continuous Print Option, causes a GP fault. - Selecting Landscape Option under File/Printer Setup does not work. - MS Windows exits to DOS when the OK button for printing the screen or buffer is double clicked. > > LPR - No support for the DOS wildcard character (*) in the filename specification. >> RAPID FILER - Unable to parse directories on certain UNIX hosts. - If the user does not have write permission when overwriting a host file, the file is not copied and the file on host is deleted. >> SERVING FTP - If Serving FTP is invoked AND iconized, no users can FTP to the LWP workstation, whether the user is authorized or not. >> TNVT220 - Selecting the VT220 8-Bit emulation mode caused TNVT220 to go in binary mode. The user was unable to enter his user name and password. Now selecting the VT220 8-bit mode will leave the emulation in ASCII mode. - Opening a TNVT220 session, then using > TELAPI - Did not work with the "Relay Gold". - 1st character of each output line eaten. >> RSH/REXEC/RPR - Error message "Read error on stdio socket: Connection reset by peer" is printed at completion of RSH commands. - Error message "Read error on stdio socket: Bad file number" is printed at completion of RSH commands. - RPR didn't support the DOS wildcard character (*) in the filename specification. >> FTP Patched version of FTP resolves the issue of getting 0 byte length files placed in the directory when the FTP GET or PUT fails for any reason. SOLUTION Apply LWP207.EXE. IMPORTANT NOTES: 1. LWP208.EXE is the companion to LWP207.EXE. We recommend that you apply it also. 2. Sites with the French, Spanish, German, or Portuguese versions of LAN WorkPlace, LAN WorkGroup have two options: - A. To receive "more complete" error messages, apply the following files from LWP207.EXE: -- LWPCON.MSG -- RSH.MSG -- TELAPI.MSG -- XPC.MSG -- FTP.MSG However, the messages will exclusively be in English. - B. Do not copy in those 5 new .MSG files, and continue to receive the "old less complete" error messages in French, Spanish, German, or Portuguese 3. LWP207.EXE does not include the NFS Client for LAN WorkPlace software. Self-Extracting File Name: LWP207.EXE Revision: A Files Included Size Date Time \ LWP207.TXT (This File) FS.DLL 16832 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a FTP.EXE 96714 02-01-94 4:12a 412-2a FTP.MSG 6581 02-01-94 4:12a NA FTP.PIF 545 02-01-94 4:12a NA LPR.EXE 42904 06-29-94 6:00p 412-2a LPR.MSG 4605 06-29-94 6:00p NA RPR.EXE 55810 06-15-94 9:55a 412-2b RPR.MSG 2829 06-08-94 11:17a NA RSH.EXE 46910 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a RSH.MSG 1359 02-01-94 4:12a NA XPC.EXE 12284 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a XPC.MSG 2175 02-01-94 4:12a NA XPC.OV0 19481 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a XPC.OV1 38804 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a XPC.OV2 13130 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a XPC.PIF 545 02-01-94 4:12a NA REXEC.EXE 47550 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a TELAPI.EXE 40592 07-20-94 2:23p 412-2f TELAPI.MSG 1919 07-20-94 2:23p NA WDOSFS.DLL 19808 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a WFTPFS.DLL 57232 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a LWPUTIL.DLL 35936 03-21-94 4:20a 42-1m TNVT220.EXE 108528 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a TNVT220.MSG 6088 02-01-94 4:12a NA PRESENTR.EXE 186448 06-21-94 5:32p 412-2f RAPFILER.EXE 113488 04-04-94 4:12a 412-2a SERVEFTP.EXE 89136 06-22-94 7:31p 412-2a Installation Instructions: Copy all the files in LWP207.EXE to the LAN WorkPlace / LAN WorkGroup BIN directory. The default LAN WorkPlace directory is C:\NET\BIN, and the default LAN WorkGroup directory is {fileserver/volume}:NET\BIN. Solution Specifics: In addition to correcting the listed symptoms, LWP207.EXE changes XPC in the following ways: 1. Uses the software timer interrupt (Interrupt 1C) instead of the hardware timer interrupt (Interrupt 8). (for compatibility reasons) 2. The rate at which the client screen is updated by XPC has increased. (faster screen update) Patch History: LWP207.EXE supersedes LWP188.EXE. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Any trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners. Consult your product manuals for complete trademark information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ÿ