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LANTASTIC NETWORKS


A discussion about New Deal software and LANtastic

New Deal software is network aware and has been thoroughly tested with machines connected to networks using LANtastic version 4.0 and higher. It might not work with LANtastic versions before 4.0.

To run on LANtastic, you must have New Deal installed on the hard drive of the machine where you want to run it. You should then be able to access shared drives and printers across the network.

Unless you have purchased the network version, Mew Deal software will not run remotely from a LANtastic server drive; that is, you cannot install standard single-user New Deal products on a remote drive (on another machine) and then run them from your local PC.

PRINTING

We have found that the following settings, recommended by Artisoft (makers of LANtastic), will allow New Deal software to print under LANtastic 4.0.

To change settings, run LANtastic's NET_MGR program, typically by typing

C:\LANTISTI\NET_MGR
Then, Then type
C:\LANTISTI\NET LPT TIMEOUT 30
In New Deal Preferences, choose Computer, and set your parallel port to DOS.

FILE SHARING ON NETWORKS

New Deal software does not currently allow multiple users to access the same document file, unless that file is set to Read Only. (You can set a file to Read Only in NewManager. Click once on the file's icon, open the File menu and select File Information then, Change Attributes.) If a user has a New Deal document open that's not Read-only, then that document file will appear as a non-New Deal document with a standard DOS "8.3" ffilename and a standard DOS icon to other users on the network.

NOTE: LANTastic depends upon DOS's SHARE utility to provide file-locking that prevents multiple accesses to the same file. THE COPY OF SHARE.EXE ON THE SERVER MUST BE DOS 4.0 OR HIGHER, OR IT WILL NOT WORK. If SHARE is not properly installed and configured, multiple users will be able to open a copy of the same New Deal document simultaneously (even if it's not set to Read Only), but when anyone attempts to save it, the document will be corrupted.

Loading the LASTDRIVE command in high memory using QEMM or another memory manager has occasionally been shown to interfere with New Deal's ability to recognize LANTastic network drives.

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