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- {Artisoft FAX-Facts System}
-
- This menu-driven system will automatically download current sales and
- technical bulletins to your fax system. To use the system, call
- 602-293-1397 from the phone attached to your fax, listen to the menu and
- choose up to three faxes per call. The faxes will immediately begin printing
- on your fax. A list of currently available sales literature and technical
- bulletins follows. Technical bulletins contain details for installating other
- vendor's products with LANtastic networks. These bulletins have been
- written by Artisoft's Compatibility Department after product testing and
- have been reviewed by the vendor of the products for accuracy:
-
- Description Menu Choice
- MS-DOS 5.0 [4 pages] 314
- This List [2 pages] 2
- Compatibility List 03/11/91 [9 pages] 21
- LANtastic Network Operating System Brochure [4 pages] 22
- Artisoft AE-2 Ethernet Adapter Brochure [2 pages] 23
- LANtastic 2 Mbps Adapter Brochure [2 pages] 24
- Artisoft Sounding Board Adapter Brochure [2 pages] 25
- Artisoft Voice Programmer's Interface Brochure [2 pages] 26
- LANtastic RAM Daughter Board Brochure [2 pages] 27
- LANtastic Boot ROM Daughter Board Brochure [2 pages] 28
- LANtastic Z Serial/Parallel/Modem LAN Brochure [2 pages] 29
- The Network Eye Brochure [2 pages] 30
- All nine Sales Brochures listed above [20 pages] 31
- Reseller Application Packet [6 pages] 32
- PC Magazine Review Reprint [4 pages] 33
- PC World Review Reprint [2 pages] 34
- Both magazine review reprints [6 pages] 35
- Notes on LANtastic NOS v.3.03 01/29/91 [2 pages] 36
- FilePro 16 Plus 3.0, The Small Computer Company [2 pages] 301
- Macola 3.13/401, Macola Inc. [2 pages] 302
- PC Tools Deluxe 5.5, Central Point Software [3 pages] 303
- ACCPAC BPI 3.0a, Computer Associates [3 pages] 304
- ACCPAC Plus 6.0, Computer Associates [7 pages] 305
- Windows 3.0x Microsoft 02/22/91 [6 pages] 311
- AutoCAD 10, Autodesk [2 pages] 312
- RealWorld 5.0, RealWorld [3 pages] 313
- CD-ROM Applications [3 pages] 315
- CD-ROM Supplement: CD Net 3.0, Meridian Data [1 page] 316
-
- You must call from the phone attached to your FAX system. If you do
- not have a FAX that has a phone attached, please call Artisoft Customer
- Service, will mail the material to you.
-
- Please wait for all keystrokes you enter to be confirmed by the voice
- attendant. Some FAX systems do not properly process the keystrokes
- entered.
- If you get a FAX tone you may have dialed our normal FAX number
- (602)-293-8065 and not our FAX Facts Systems (602)-293-1397; please dial
- again.
-
- When you have finished selecting items, press 1 to confirm and then
- 0 to end your selection -- again, please wait for confirmation of your
- keystrokes. Then press the Manual Receive or Start on your FAX to begin
- receiving the FAX.
-
- LANtastic 4.0 is released and shipping for an upgrade fee of $50. The
- questions and answers below deal with the previously announced
- maintenance release of LANtastic Network Operating Systems version 3.03
- Maintenance Release (update): LANtastic Network Operating System
- version 3.03 is currently released and shipping. LANtastic Network
- Operating System 3.03 is free to all registered users who own the
- LANtastic Network Operating System 3.0 or later. If you own the LANtastic
- Network Operating System v2.57 or earlier there is a $50 charge for the
- upgrade. Please contact Artisoft Customer Support for the update or
- upgrade on 602-293-6363 and press 7 from a touch-tone phone for
- Customer Service.
-
- Q: How do I install LANtastic Network Operating System v3.03?
-
- A: As with all LANtastic updates and upgrades, installing this version
- over a previous version will not change your network configuration.
- All accounts and resources will remain unchanged. This version
- MUST be installed on all computers in your network (do not copy
- the files from the distribution diskette) since the files are packed
- and installing the program will unpack the files.
-
- Q: I installed LANtastic Network Operating System 3.03 and was slightly
- confused by the questions the installation program asked me. Now
- when I load LANBIOS (or LANBIOS2) it gives me the following error
- message: "No LANtastic hardware present at this address..." I
- didn't remove or change the hardware and it was working before
- I installed LANtastic Network Operating System 3.03.
-
- A: Perhaps you chose LANBIOS.EXE instead of LANBIOS2.EXE to
- install (or vice versa) and your adapter cards should be running the
- other program. Original LANtastic 2 Mbps adapters must run
- LANBIOS.EXE LANtastic 2 Mbps Micro Channel Adapters must run
- LANBIOS.EXE LANtastic Enhanced 2 Mbps adapters must run
- LANBIOS2.EXE
-
- Q: I chose the wrong driver during the installation program. How do I
- copy the correct program from the installation disk?
-
- A: Default to the A: (or B:) drive. Type A: and press enter and then
- type the following:
- A:>Install unpack C:\lantasti\lanbios.EXE
- (or desired file)
- The above command will unpack LANBIOS.EXE and place it in the
- C:\LANTASTI directory
-
- Q: What is the XEROX switch that AE2.EXE, NE3.EXE and WD8003.EXE
- versions 1.15 and higher support?
-
- A: AE2.EXE, NE3.EXE and WD8003.EXE versions 1.15 and higher now
- support the XEROX switch. This is significant in installations where
- other networking packets are being passed on the same cabling
- as LANtastic. The XEROX switch prevents some other network
- programs from confusing LANtastic Network packets with their own
- network packets. One network program that we know is confused
- without the XEROX switch is Hewlett Packard's Advancenet for the
- HP 3000.
-
- Q: What does the LANtastic Network Operating System v3.03
- README.DOC mean when it says that LANcache v.1.31 solves
- problems with bad sectors on my drive?
-
- A: LANcache caches a whole track of data. On previous versions, if a
- request was made to read data from a track that had a bad sector
- marked not to be used, then LANcache could not properly read the
- other sectors on the same track.
-
- Q: LANcache v1.31 will display a warning message if you try to cache
- drives larger than 65535 tracks. What size in Megabytes are drives
- that have 65535 tracks?
-
- A: This depends on the low-level formatting utility that formatted the
- drives. The way to tell if LANcache will cache the whole drive in
- question is to take the number of tracks times the number of
- sectors per track times 512 (LANcache caches only drives that
- format 512-byte sectors). This will give you the size of the drive in
- Megabytes.
-
- Q: The LANtastic Network Operating System v3.03 README.DOC refers
- to the fact that LANcache now works correctly with programs that
- create non-standard partition tables for boot-up security. What is
- a program that creates a non-standard partition table?
-
- A: This is a program used to secure a PC from tampering by other
- users. It is a software-only way to protect your PC's data. Programs
- like this create a partition table that cannot be read by DOS. There
- is a program in the computer's CONFIG.SYS file that is read when
- the computer boots that tells DOS, upon entering a password, how
- to read the partition table, so that files can be read and saved back
- to disk. This is not the same as network security, but a way to stop
- someone who doesn't know the password from using any
- computer on or off a network. One program we know that provides
- this type of security is PC-VAULT.
-
- Q: Why does LANcache support the SERVER SHUTDOWN_KEY=
- switch? I don't see anything in the Server Shutdown Menu about
- LANcache.
-
- A: LANcache intercepts CTRL-ALT-DEL so that it can flush the cache to
- disk before rebooting (this is true even if SERVER isn't running).
- Some software, like old versions of 386MAX, interfere with this
- interception, so an alternate reboot hot-key is provided. When
- CTRL-ALT-(key) is activated to shut down a server, this also flushes
- the LANcache buffer. This also occurs when CTRL-ALT-(key) is
- pressed without the server loaded.
-
- Q: Why do I get "Btrieve Error 84" when running my application over
- LANtastic Network Operating System v3.02, but it works fine at the
- server or if I use LANtastic Network Operating System v3.00 or
- earlier?
-
- A: The source of the problem is DOS 3.3's SHARE.EXE. When an
- application wants to flush buffers to disk, it does it in one of two
- ways: by duplicating the file handle (INT 21 function 45h) and then
- closing the duplicate file handle (INT 21 function 3Eh) or by using
- the commit file call (INT 21 function 68h). The duplicate/close
- method was used exclusively before the flush buffer call was added
- in DOS 3.3. Since there is the possibility of having different DOS
- versions on different machines, LANtastic converts all flush buffer
- calls on the workstation to duplicate/close calls on the server. The
- problem comes up when SHARE erroneously clears the locks on
- the ORIGINAL file when the duplicate file handle is closed. The
- problem can be resolved by using MS DOS 4.01 (not PC DOS 4.0)
- on the server because SHARE was fixed, or upgrading to LANtastic
- Network Operation System v3.03. SERVER.EXE v3.03 was modified
- so that it checks the version of DOS running on the server, and will
- not convert the duplicate/close calls if DOS 3.3 or higher is present.
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