LANtastic Network Operating System v4.00 Technical Bulletin Product Reviewed: Harvard Graphics v3.0 by Software Publishing Corp. Classification: Desktop Publishing Date: 11/27/91 Engineer: MH Compatibility Statement Harvard Graphics version 3.0 has been tested as compatible with LANtastic 4.x. This bulletin has been designed to help with the installation and setup of this product. Network Information The appendix B in the Harvard Graphics Network Administrator's Manual does not cover LANtastic NOS. Instead, you may want to refer to the following section for using Harvard Graphics on NOS 4.0: 1. Create a user personal directory on each user's workstation or under a home directory. This directory is used to store each user's unique Harvard Graphics configuration files and personal dictionaries. The maximum number of concurrent users allowed is governed by your Node License Pack. 2. Log on to the server machine as a user with sufficient rights to create directories, files, etc. 3. Create these sharable resources from NET_MGR with the specified access rights on the server machine (You may want to create the directories on the server's local drive and then redirect a network drive, say L:, to point to the root of the drive): Directory Users/Groups Access Rights Files L:\HG3 * R---L---E--- HG3 program files, HG3.INF, HG3.NET L:\HG3\LOG * RWC-L---E--- HG3.LOG and HG3NOACC.LOG are created. 4. Install Harvard Graphics and the network utility files to the directories you just created. See Chapter 1 of the Network Administrator's Manual and the next section in this bulletin. The installation will ask you to choose the drive letter under which you put all the Harvard Graphics files. It is recommended that you pick a common drive letter to be used by all nodes on the network to simplify the set up of each workstation. 5. Run HG3NETST to access the LAN Setup Menu and set the path for the user's personal directory to point to the ones you created in step 1. This personal directory is going to hold each user's configuration files HG3.CF3, HG3.FGF and the dictionary files. 6. Also set up the path for the log file directory based on the resources you created in step 3. 7. Installation on the Harvard Graphics server is completed. To invoke HG3 from a workstation: - Log onto the Harvard Graphics server. - Redirect a drive to point to the \HG3 directory, e.g. net use l: \\\HG3 - Add the \HG3 directory to the DOS PATH command in the workstation's AUTOEXEC.BAT file. - When HG3 is invoked, Harvard Graphics will refer to your personal directory specified in HG3NETST for your particular set up configuration. A user can also identify a directory by using the /p option on the command line to override the pre-defined directory, e.g. hg3 /p l:\hg3\users\%username%. This is useful for workstations that do not have hard drives or when each user wants to put his personal files under directories with different names. - To customize your workstation setting, select the Setup option from the Harvard Graphics main menu when you run HG3 for the first time on your workstation. Your personalized program defaults will be stored in the file HG3.CF3 on your personal directory. Installing Harvard Graphics To install Harvard Graphics on any node on the network, follow closely the steps outlined in the 1-page Getting Started with Harvard Graphics guide and Chapter 1 of the Setup Manual. During our testing, we have discovered the following 2 minor issues besides the system requirements listed on page 1-1 of the Setup manual: - There must be at least 560K of free disk space left on the drive after the Harvard Graphics files have been installed. Otherwise, you will need to remap your 'work directory' to some other area that has room for the temporary work files created during a Harvard Graphics section. See page 2-6 of the Setup Manual for details. If you have set up a printer or a film recorder that has hardware fonts, you may need up to 600K more bytes of free temporary work space. - If any of the workstations on your network does not have a mouse, you may want to get a driver called 'NOMOUSE.EXE' to avoid the error message 'Unable to locate a mouse driver' whenever you invoke HG3 from the mouse-less node. Please refer to their Compuserve forum for details. Software Publishing Corp. recommends that BUFFERS=20 in your CONFIG.SYS if you are not using a disk cache utility. The DOS SHARE program should be loaded on the server. Optimizing Harvard Graphics Using extended or expanded memory as a disk cache gives you optimum performance in Harvard Graphics. EMS and XMS are covered in great detail in the section under Optimizing Performance in Chapter 1 of the Setup Manual. Printing To set up your printer on Harvard Graphics is relatively straight forward. Just redirect the device (e.g. LPT1, LPT2) using the net use command and specify that as your output port from the Setup menu (option 8 from the main menu). Summary This document has been designed to help with the installation and setup of Harvard Graphics 3.0 on LANtastic and to provide a guideline for trouble shooting. If a problem arises which cannot be resolved through this bulletin, please contact our technical support staff at (602) 293-6363. Any questions or suggestions on this bulletin may be mailed to our office: Artisoft, Inc., 691 East River Road, Tucson, AZ 85704. ATTN: Compatibility Department / Harvard Graphics 3.0 Support. Vendor Info Software Publishing Corp., 1901 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA 94039-7210. Phone (408)988-4005 Fax (408)980-1518.  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