Compatibility Statement Chronologic Corp.'s Instant Recall Office v2.0 (maintenance release O or later) is compatible with LANtastic NOS v4.xx and v5.xx. Product Overview Instant Recall Office is a DOS-based Personal / Workgroup information manager. Data objects in the system allow you to keep track of addresses and phone numbers of people, take notes, schedule appointments, organize to-do lists and do reports or searches on these items. Instant Recall Office on the network supports group scheduling with open time search, electronic mail, shared databases and password protection. Product Installation Notes The LANtastic network software must be running on the machine on which Instant Recall Office will be installed. Redirect an available network drive letter to point to the server on which Instant Recall is to be installed, e.g. NET USE E: \\SERVER\C-DRIVE. Without this redirection, the Install Recall Office installation procedure will not be able to find enough disk space to install the program because it only looks at network'ed drives. However, a server with files required to initialize or shutdown Windows should not remap any of its local drives to network drives (a.k.a. loop-back redirections), or else Windows will lock up on the logo screen during initialization. Thus, it is recommended that on a server running Windows, Instant Recall Office should be installed from another workstation, or the loop-back redirection be removed after the installation is completed. Then, follow the instructions in the Instant Recall Office manual for the rest of the installation procedure. Choose 'NetBIOS' when asked about your network type. After the installation is completed, you may log in as the supervisor and create new system users to access the system. To add a system user, choose the Preferences menu, then Network/Database, then System User Setup. Instant Recall Office maintenance release O and above should not require all workstations to use the same drive letter. To use Instant Recall Office from another workstation, log onto the server machine on which you have already installed the program. Redirect an available drive letter to point to the Instant Recall Office directory and invoke "IR2 ", where "" is a system user created by the supervisor. Product Execution Notes When running in the foreground, Instant Recall Office requires 512K of memory. You can also run Instant Recall Office in memory resident mode, which allows it to pop up over other software at the touch of a key and to send you an alarm when you have an appointment or urgent message. The TSR (IRLOAD) requires 25K of memory in the background and should be loaded after all network drivers. You can load the TSR into upper memory by running the IRLOADHI program with some memory managers such as QEMM and 386MAX. If you are running DOS 5.0, you should just use the DOS loadhigh command (as in LH IRLOAD) instead of IRLOADHI. Starting LANtastic v5.0, a stricter constraint was placed on any TSR co-existing with our SERVER.exe TSR. Direct manipulation of the interrupt vector table is prohibited. If you are having difficulty running IRLOAD with SERVER, a workaround (in the form of a patch SERVTSR.exe) is provided and can be obtained from Artisoft's BBS. Printing If you get a message indicating the printer is not ready when you try to print from Instant Recall Office, try ignoring the message and see if you can finish the printing. Instant Recall Office uses a BIOS call to determine the state of a printer, which is not supported by some BIOS chips. To disable the false alarm, you can append the /NOCP command line option to IR2, IRLOAD or IRLOADHI. However, you will not receive the proper warning when the printer is indeed not ready, e.g. when it is out of paper. Compatibility Notes Instant Recall Office running on a LANtastic workstation needs access to its data files on the server and constantly performs updates to the server in the background. Therefore, it is recommended that the server machine should be powered on before any workstations and be the last one powered off so that the workstations and server can be in synch with each other. To determine which maintenance release you are currently on, press F1 for Help, then press F2 for Info - the letter at the end of the serial number indicates the release level. We recommend running maintenance release O or later with LANtastic. Version History 2/2/93: Instant Recall Office v2.0 tested for compatibility with LANtastic v4.1. 4/12/93: Instant Recall Office v2.0 tested for compatibility with LANtastic v5.0. Vendor Information Chronologic Corp. 5151 N. Oracle #210, Tucson AZ 85704. Phone: 602-293-3100. Fax: 602-293-0709. LANtastic Network Operating System Compatibility Bulletin Product Reviewed: Instant Recall Office v2.0 from Chronologic Corp. Classification: Personal / Workgroup Productivity Software Date: 05.28.93 Engineer: MH Page 3 of 3 ARTISOFT, Inc. makes no warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of this document. LANtastic is a trademark of ARTISOFT, Inc. Brand names, company names, and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.