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- ZETAFAX Evaluation System Release Notes - Version 5.50a
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- This is an evaluation version of Zetafax, the fax gateway for Windows,
- Windows NT and Windows 95. It is a fully working 5 user version, which
- can be used to send and receive faxes with a Class 2 or Class 2.0
- fax modem. It includes the API toolkit option, though not the API
- developer libraries.
-
- The evaluation system is a slightly cut down version of the full Zetafax
- product, which prints "Zetafax evaluation system" in the background of
- faxes which it sends.
-
- The software should be installed from the machine which has the fax modem
- connected (which will become the fax server, though this does not need
- to be a dedicated PC). If you specify a network drive to install the
- files on, you will be able to configure other workstations on the network
- to run as Zetafax workstations (click on the README icon after
- installation for more details).
-
-
- EQUISYS Limited, London:
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- Phone: 0171-403 2227 (Intl +44 171 403 2227)
- Fax: 0171-378 6886 (Intl +44 171 378 6886)
- Email: sales@equisys.com
- Compuserve: 100023,2100
- http://www.equisys.com (a UK based web site)
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- USA and Canada:
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- Phone: (770) 622 2810
- Fax: (770) 232 9624
- Email: sales@zetafax.com
- Compuserve: 70613,457
- http://www.zetafax.com (a US based web site)
-
- Zetafax is distributed in many other countries
- Please contact EQUISYS for details of your local supplier
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- E-mail support
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- The Zetafax server allows received faxes to be delivered direct to your
- e-mail account with MAPI compliant e-mail systems.
-
- The Zetafax E-mail Gateway allow faxes to be sent and received using e-mail
- clients on Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, cc:Mail and
- Novell Groupwise. This is installed separately after the Zetafax
- server software has been installed and configured. Users then have the
- choice of using the Zetafax client, their e-mail client, or both to
- submit and monitor the progress of faxes.
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- The E-mail Gateway is not included with this evaluation system
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- Using Zetafax with Windows NT
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- See the separate WIN-NT.TXT file (in this directory) for information
- about installing and using Zetafax under Windows NT.
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- Using Zetafax with Brooktrout and Gammafax intelligent fax boards
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- The 32-bit (Intel) Zetafax Server under Windows NT supports Brooktrout fax
- boards (TR111, TR112, TR114 and TruFax models), and Gammafax fax boards.
- These are not supported by this evaluation system.
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- Compatibility issues with other software
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- 1. Creating coversheets with Windows 95.
-
- The Zetafax printer driver under Windows 95 does not support FaxMerge
- commands, used when creating coversheets. If you wish to create new
- coversheet foreground files (rather than use one of the standard files
- supplied) it is therefore simplest to do this from a Windows 3.x or
- Windows NT PC.
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- If you only have Windows 95 workstations available, you can create
- a new coversheet foreground file by configuring an Epson LQ-1000
- printer driver, configured to print to file C:\WINDOWS\ZETAFAX.SPL.
- The Epson resident fonts (eg "Roman 10cpi") behave in the same way
- as the Zetafax fonts referred to in the online help.
-
-
- 2. Changing paper size in Word for Windows 2.0
-
- Word for Windows version 2.0 does not notify printers of the paper
- size which it wishes to use. Therefore when using Word with the
- Zetafax printer you should ensure that the paper size configured
- in printer setup agrees with Word's page setup size.
-
- Word 6.0 has this problem corrected.
-
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- 3. Use with Sun PC NFS
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- PC NFS uses a special character in file names to identify Unix
- files with names longer than the standard DOS 8+3 format.
- By default this is the tilda character '~'. If you create a
- file on a PC whose name contains this character, then do a
- DIR, the file has a different name (eg "~TEST000.TMP" gets
- stored as "~TEST~RA.TMP").
-
- Zetafax uses file names which contain tilda characters, and
- therefore does not work correctly when PC NFS changes the
- file names in this manner. You can correct the problem by
- telling NFS to use another character (eg '%'). This is done
- by modifying the line which loads PCNFS.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS
- file on each PC, adding a parameter "/C%" to the end - eg
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- Device = C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /C%
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- 4. Background printing in Microsoft Word 6.0
-
- When you print to the Zetafax printer from an application
- Zetafax waits until printing has finished before displaying
- the addressing dialog box, in case the file being printed
- contains any automatic addressing commands.
-
- With most applications this means that the addressing dialog
- is displayed immediately the application's "Printing page nnn"
- message box is removed. However Word 6.0 (and some other
- applications) performs printing in the background, giving
- just a small visual indication on the status bar to say that it
- is in progress.
-
- With Word 6.0, background printing to the Zetafax printer is
- now disabled. If you install Word after installing Zetafax,
- you should run the Zetafax Workstation Setup program and
- choose the "update programs" option to make this change.
-
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- 5. Using embedded addressing commands with WordPerfect 5.1
-
- Faxes may be addressed automatically by including special
- commands in the text of the fax (eg "%%[FAX:1234]"), using one
- of the Zetafax fonts. However, this is not currently supported
- under WordPerfect 5.1 (as it prints each character of the command
- individually).
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- 6. Running server over Windows NT 3.5 Netware client
-
- There is a compatibility problem between the Windows NT Netware
- client software and certain versions of Novell, causing an error
- when reading data which has just been written. The Zetafax
- server programs check for this problem while running, and if
- detected an error message is displayed and the server will
- be shutdown. If this occurs it may be corrected as follows.
-
- If you are running the server on a Windows NT PC, using a Novell
- server for the shared files, you should install the ServerArea files
- (normally in zfax\SERVER) on the server PCs local disk instead of
- on the fileserver. If you have already installed Zetafax you can
- change this by copying the SERVER directory to the local disk
- (including any empty subdirectories), then editing the [SERVER]
- section in the ZETAFAX.INI file to change the ServerArea: line.
-
- This is due to faults in the standard version of the Netware client
- software for Windows NT when used with older versions of Novell
- (3.11), and therefore may not be necessary with later versions of
- the Netware client.
-
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- 7. Using FaxMerge and addressing commands with Microsoft Word 97
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- In Microsoft Word 97 the default method of printing text has changed,
- to prevent text sizes changing when switching between printers.
- Instead of sending complete strings of text to the printer, it
- sends individual characters, with minor positioning changes between
- each character.
-
- To use embedded addressing and FaxMerge commands with Word 97, with
- both the Zetafax printer and the Epson LQ-1000, it is necessary to
- revert to the previous behaviour. This can be done by using the
- Tools | Options menu choice, and selecting (checking) the option
- "Use printer metrics to lay out document". This affects the
- current document only.
-
- Note that this option must also be changed to create new
- coversheet foreground files using Word 97.
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- 8. Layout problems with tables using Microsoft Word 97
-
- Microsoft Word 97 gives problems when used with printers which do
- not have the same resolution vertically and horizontally (ie
- which do not have "square" pixels) - this includes fax printers,
- which are 204 x 196 dpi. The symptom is that the table text is
- out of step with the lines of the table.
-
- A service pack for Word 97 has now been released which corrects
- the problem, and is available from the Microsoft Web site. For
- sites who have not yet installed this update, the new Zetafax Printer
- for Windows NT 4.0 and NT 3.51 include a resolution of 200 x 200 dpi
- - selecting this will also correct the problem.
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