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From the Editor

Contents
S.C SdlSon Alt ouat 1981

Features
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Commodity INarketl
Big changes in the computer industry this
month. Borland buys Ashton Tate, Novell
buys Digital Research, Apple and IBM agree
to develop the operating system and compute rs of the future. The Big Three (I BM ,
Compaq and Apple) are getting set to sell
through discount superstores. We live in interesting times.

Choosing the right type of network for your business.By IkpcdyGrcca.

W sndows and Netware.......... . ........................................................44

A Black Axt. By Peter Lirgccl.
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Networkinl
This month we focus on Networking.
Longu e r eaders of the paper will welcome
the return of Roedy Green who writesour
lead article on networhng. Roedy, in addition
to &equent artides for The Computer Paper
in the past, has an article on wide area netsothr in the August rtgtnn of Byte mogrtinr.

Roedy plans to write for us bimonthly.

Also featured this month are articles on running Windows under Netware,
Fibre Optics, Network Backup and Fax servers on networkL All of these articles
should be useful anyone managing an MSrDOS network these days.

Mac Stuff
On the Macintosh &out, we have a look at WordPerfect's impressive, but not
quite perfect, challenge in the word processing arena. Microsoft has a new release
of Excel for the Macintosh, that should keep it ahead of the pack. They can look
forward to competition &om both Louss and Claris later this year in the spreadsheet market

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Tricks and tips for Excel $.0. By Gracmc Bcrgacl.

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processor "for the executive" and QgcA version 4.0, the latest incarnation of the
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Editorial
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Deparhnents

(B.C. Edition. Please call for Alberta & Manitoba schedules.)

Issue

Topics

SEPT 91

Education Ri Training,
Point of Sale

Aug 12

Word Processing,

Sept 16

OCT 91

Windows
NOV 91
DEC 91

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Unix Workstations,
Hard Drives

Oct 14

Games, Printers,
The Rest of 1991

Nov 11

Ma

C amera Ready Distribution

Aug 14
Sept 18

Aug 29
Oct 4
Nov 1

Nov 13

Nov 29

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I recently picked up yourJuly edi-

tion, and read it cover-towover, as I

nermallydo. I really enjoy your magazine, and it has become ene of those
things that I look forward to every
meath. It's net
the high point
of my month, bu t ha s gradually
become one of the many little things
which punctuate my life and make it
worth living. a good conversation with
a friend, a great idea dawning while
taking a shower, the discovery of a particularly good new little restaurant, a
sunny day at the race track with a win
or two as a bonus, and the day 1'ke
Ceipursr Pape hits the street.
I' ve learned a lot and much ef
what I'
ve learned has come from your
magazine, from some of the excellent
pieces byRoedy Green, anclothers in
your stable of fme writers.
However, I write you net only to
give kudes, but also te earp.
Sometimes Isee your magannewhile it may pan this piece ef sofNrare
er that piece of hardware as being
too rah-rah-rah for the computer
industry generally. When a really dmnb
idea appears on the high-tech front,
I 'd b e h a ppy t o h e a r y ou r ( e r
anyone' s) opinion, that this is a really
stupid idea, and that it should die a
quick death. There areacme really
identifiably meronic ideas in the computer industry which require a second
look Computer companiesarehke any
other: anything te make a buck, and if

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pen to press the keys. Packet-sized
things for appointments which take
longer to p r o gram th e m o n t h 's
appointments than you or I could do
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break
How aboutlookmg at the new'Pen'
Computers? The hard seII is that handwriting is so much more Mtuitive" (a
word which computer
types
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I beg to difFer. I taught myself at the
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Handwriting is one of the toughest
things, next to language, that we ever
learn, and it ceruiinly ain't intuitive in
any sense of the word. Put Sve smart 5year~lds together, give them a choice
between curaim writing and keyboard
skills, and you' ll encl up with five pretty
quick young typists, no question.
That's intuitive! Some anal-retentive
executives may shun the keyboard
because they see keyboarding as the
proper work of lackeys, but the rest of
us can write large novels while they
pen short and useless memos with
their Gross pensl
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that kind of machine. (Coming soon, I
know). Personal computing will reach
a time when it's not growing on an
exponential curve, when not even
incredible hype can sell some new and
useless idea. How about devoting some
time to these issues, and to the human

side of the computer revolution.

Because it is a revolution no way
would I argue with you on that point.

And I love it.

Keep the good issues coming, whateverthey may contain.
Yours truly,
Paul Harris
Vancouver
Readm whohawe ~joyett Reedy Gnee's
aeticke itapast ettititrne may be plaaeedto aee
his cotetri8utioteto our eeeteeorhieegfeature
itethis issue.

Ad Controversial
The obscenity on p.62/ July issue,
alleging a REASON why one should
shop at Byte Computers, demands
invalidation. The weighing of evidence
is never made easier by the threat of
destruction; a gun is not an argument.
Our computer revolution was not created by force,but by the &eedom to
decide what is best in each situation, by
each individual concerned, to the beat
of their knowledge. Threats of coercion and appeals to reason are mutually exclusive; either you are free to
judge foryourself the merits of a product or you are intimidated into acceding to the claims of your coercer you
cannot have both. "Why shop anywhere else for Computers?", I respond,
"Because I still value my mind, my
money, my life and civilized society".
Profoundly disappointed,
A.jones
Vancouver

The Computer Paper

is Fattening

Quite often,when I go for a coffee,

I take a computer magazine along. It' s
not unusual forthe coffee and the
magazine skim~ough to end together'

Com
puter

Today I took The

Paper to
read while I had a milk shake. After
three milk shakes I had just completed
the first skim~ough. I don't think I
weighed as much this morning. There

is lots of interesting (fattening) reading in your publication.

Murray MacKenzie
Maple Software
Scmrborough, Ontario.

Can't Missan Issue

I first picked up your paper two
summers ago when visiting my family
in Vancouver. I have been a subscriber
&om afar ever since. It is one of the
few publications on anything (and I
get a lot) that I sit down and read
cover~ o ver as soon as it arriveL
Enclosed please find my cheque,
Renew my subscription. Immediately.

TexTy Burrows, B.Sc. M3).

Toronto, Ontario

Paperis otethe teay.

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Database Developers need

not be Bi9 or Expensive
I read with interest the article in the

July issue entitled Custom Software

Development. This article has several
insightful and valuable ideas but it also
makes a few statements that appear,
&om my perspective, to be quite inappropriate.
The author tells us that "you can
expect to pay $125 to $150 per hour
for topquality people". I have been in
the consulting business for a long time
and I would suggest that a customer
could find experienced PC
for significantly less that the range suggested in the article.
The author also suggests that you
should purchase this application development expertise &om a large company to reduce your risk There are several small firms who specialize in application development for personal computers. These "small" firms are often
capable of delivering the same or better service to their customers at a significantl lower costs than the 'large'
flrma
T he concept o f a "Programmer/Analyst" is also unacceptable to

develp
oers

the author. He believes that analysts

should analyze and programmers

should program and never shall the
two paths cross. It has been my experience that splitting these functions in
such a definitive way only causes more
confusion in what is actually delivered
to the client and results in increasing
the cost of development.
Our company is in the business of
developing custom application software for clients on micros, minie and
mainframes. I would encourage businesses who are considering custom
development to make sure that they
talk to several firms so that they can
weigh the merits of each firm's philosophy against the cost of developing the
application.
Ken Robertson
President
KLR Consulting Services, Inc.

Ladymnith, B.C.

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Winix System Packs Unix

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authorizations to carry Apple products

Winix, a series of applications which

run under Windows 8.0, allows users to
access UNIX networks from their PCs.
The applications include: Winix
Manager, which gives simultaneous
access to Unix and MS-DOS and allows
Unix commands to be within the
Windows environment, and provides
for the storage of MS-DOS files on the
U nix
se r v er ; Wi n ix
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execution of system administration by
executing Unix and network commands while remaining in Windows;
Winix Mail, which allows standard
Unix mail service by adding the ability
to attach binary files as appendices
including bitmaps, spreadsheets etc;
Winix Conference provides for the
establishment of both open and closed
real-timeconferences; Winix Program
Library which allows users to establish
personal software program libraries for
Windows, DOS and Unix applicationa
Winix has also introduced three
aden modules to use with the basic
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Apple Canada has announced that

have been awarded to the Future Shop
and Quebec-based Aventure Electronique Inc.
Already, Macintosh Classics and LCs
are on the floor at Future Shop.
Interestingly, our source noted that
Commodore Amiga and PC products
are no longer carried by the Burnabybased discount electronics chain.
Rumor has it that Apple has plans
in the works to equalize the US and
C anadian pr ices ( e xcepting t h e
exchange rateand GST) by October.
This would please many Canadian
Apple dealers, who are suffering
because of grey marketers.
Contact: Apple Canada, 41 6-513-5607.

Octavo UpdatesVypeChart

VANCOUVER, B.C.,JUL 12 (TCP)-

Octavo has released an upgrade to its

Macintosh typeface cataloging utility,
TypeChart Sent kee to registered
users, who are also eligible for free
technical support, version 1.5 runs
heter, works better with System 7 and
contains some new features,including
True Type support The original
TypeChart release received an honor-

able mention for "Best Commercial

Entry" in the last MacWorld
SuperStacks contest. TypeChart 1.5
retails for $99.95.
ContactOctavo Productions Inc.,604-987-5270,
fax 604-987-5787.

database manager with a m u l ti-user

version.
Contact: Model Data (Canada) Inc, (604) 6690077. (1-80M65-7100)

Portables vs. Desktop PCs

A study on the productivity impact
of highlandportable computers versus
desktop personal computers reveals
some interesting facts:

80% of the portable computer users

surveyed believe their systems enable
them to be at least 5% more productive than if they used desktop systems, and half say they are at least
25% more productive.
98% of the portable computer users
would be dissatisfied if they had to

go back to desktop PCs.

58% believe they complete projects
more quickly than they would on a
desktop PC.
Interestingly, portable computer
respondents reported having to put
off theirwork because of lack of
access to a PC almost twice as often
as desktop PC respondents, Market
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who conducted the test, felt that this
was because portable users were,
more sensitized to the potential of
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VANCOUVER, B.C., JULY 18

(TCP) We' re seeing a lot of bad press

t hese days towards th e u s e o f
sequencers in live music performance.
People are beginning to feel "cheated," as the "live" show they came to see
is actually being run like clockwork
&em a computer. MIND over MIDI has
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letting the Computer

Edge in Iusiness

VANCOUVER, B.C., JULY 18

(TCP) A new program designed to

help business owners, managers and
operatorsovercome computer fears is
beginning soon at Capilano College.
The Owner Development Program
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 9

Radio Shack Challenges

Cross%order Shopping

BARRIE, ONT., July 18, 1991

(TCP) Citing growing concern over
cross-border shopping, Radio Shack
Canada has announced reductions in

price comparable to and in some

cases lower than U.S. prices for similar produc(B.

For example, the Tandy 1000 RLX,

an 80286-baaedsystem with enhanced
sound capabilities now retails in
Canada for $799, while the same computer sells south of the border for
US$799.95. The Canadian version
comes standard with IMB of RAM,
while the U.S. model has only 512K
At the higher level, the Tandy 4020
SX, an 80S86SX system is now $1,S99
in Canada and $1,799 in the U.S.
Robert Mays, vice president of
Inter TAN Canada Ltd., commented
that "Ibis is part of our effort to keep
Canadians shopping in Canada; Our
goal is to convince Canadians that
value and competitive pricing can be
found in Canada.In doing so,we may
even encourage Americans in border
communities to come to Canada for
their computer needs."

Dennis S c ottJackson, a l s o of
Vancouver.
Today, AG designs and manufac-

(TCP) Cardz BBS has become the

first BBS to offer "real time" graphics
using new &actal compression technol-

ogy, according to Cardz CEO Dwight

Jones. Cardz offers the technology,
which typically compresses image files
from 850K down to 5K to 20K for VGA
images, to other users as well. The
hardware card, bearing Intel's i960
Contact: Karen Sp eirs, Co ntemporary
compression chip sells for C$9000.
Communications Ltd., (604) 224-2384.
Jones observes that "a decent VGA
image
appears within 4 seconds using
BBS OffersFractal
the new V . S2bis modems." T h e
Compression Graphics
Comptstcr Paperspoke to Cardz employtures 10 models of joysticks for use

with all models of videogames and

computer systems. Sales in 1990 were
$5 million. Based in Burnaby, B.C., AG
employs 50 people.

V ANCOUVER, B.C., JU L

19

ee John Smith, who said that he and

fellow employee Evan Haveman are
writing an image viewer which they
hope to make &eely available on the
BBS for viewing the compressed
images. Later, Smith hopes to have an
software extension that can bc: added
to Procomm, as if it were a telecommu-

nications protocol, to download and

view the compressed imager
Cardz also announced authorization for the new Hercules SuperStation
SD. Considered by many to be the
most powerful video card in existence,
Corstinstcd oa page 10

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Product Testing Given

Serious Weight at
Advanced Gravis

V ANCOUVER, B.C J U L

19

(TCP) To make sure their joysticks

are built to last, product testers at
Advanced Gravis (AG) Computer
TechnologyLtd. of Burnaby, B.C. submit their joystlcks to a variety of tests.
Sometimes the product testing is a bit
unconventional.
"We' re always looking for ways to

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Grant Russell, president of AG. "Our
product crew came up with the most
unorthodox test to date: the forklift
t est. Th a t' s 4 I / / 2 t o n s ru n o ve r a

GravisJoystick, the ultimate proof of

durability. The joystick still works after
the forklift test." (At The Computer
Paper, wc carssidcr. thc ssltisnatc J"oystick
Tersrsitaator to be a 10 year-old with a
Nintendo game.EcL)
AG also uses the joystick oscillator
in product testing, This machine
moves the stick back and forth at high
speed for a week Another test makes
sure the microswitches on Gravis
Joysticks can tahe more than 10 million
hits. Gravis guarantees it's joystick for
one year. The Gravis joystick wus developed by Russell and childhood &iend

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it uses a TI 84020 processor coupled
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and your father agrees:

If you call us tonight
He will answer the phone,
and ifanything rhymes
You are out on your own.
excerpt from In a Letter From

speed," says
Jones.

Howe,by Gerald S. Busch.

Contact: Cardz, (604) 7324400, BBS (604) 7345901.

Contact: Suzy, Stratford Software, (604) 4391311, Kent Lyons, The Electronic Bookstore, (604)
8754265.

The Electronic Bookstore

Previously available on the Suzy network in electronic form (see What' s

New, May '91), th e books in the

Electronic Bookstore are new available
in printed form from Duthie's Books
(788-1888), Madeline's Books (6887884) and the UBC Bookstore (2286415). Several of the Christianwriented titles are also available from
Funston's Christian Book Centre (8244362). The subject matter varies widely, from quasi-biblical (a favorite theme
of INKeeper Kent Lyons) to post~pocalyptic (The Bkrch Fields That Shine,by
Keith Loh). Loh's material, in particular, makes for gripping, albeit disturbing reading.
Other material is somewhat lighter,

Xircom lntros External

Token Ring Adapter
Xircom, Inc., a leader in external
adapters for local area networks,
recently introduced its 16/4 Pocket
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LAN adapter to take advantage of 16megabits-per second Token Ring technology. The be'nefit of this new product is an ability to attatch any IBM or

such as this gem from a collection of

"poems for the PC" called Ekcrronic

compatible portable or notebook com-

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Token Ring network. The Canadian

suggested list prices is $1,159.

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The IBM-Apple agreement, which

drawn on through this cooperation."

tive contracts later in 1991, is also seen

by industry analysts as a counteraction

to theannounced alliance formed earlier between Microsoft, Compaq and

Ihgital
.
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Apple and IBM will create a "jointly

owned and independently managed"
system software company. The software
produced by this firm will be offered

find many complimentary skills to be

Krause went on t o say: "From
Apple's standpoint, the agreement will
allow us to move toward three previously stated goals. First, it helps us to
expand our core Macintosh technolo-

gy upward through the adoption of the

RISC platform. Secondly, the adoption
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newer Macintoshes even more attrac-

for sale forsystems manufactured by

tive to large corporadons, a market in

which Apple has always wished to
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Macintosh into the IB M " e nterprise

industry as it points out that no firm is

environment." Additionally, IBM and

Apple will develop an enhanced version of AIX, IBM's version of Unix,
which wiH support both Macintosh and
OSF/Motif user interfaces.

Apple spokesperson Barbara Krause

told Newsbytes that the AI X -related

plans will not impact Apple's plans to

releasean enhanced version of A/UX,
Apple's Unix version, early next year.
Apple and IBM further announced
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implementations of IBM's RS/6000
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gration with larger systems and that

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has beeii another of our goals."
The announcement specifically
K sth&' D y son, p u b l isher o f .
mentions the "Intel's x86, Motorola's
EDventure, told Newsbytes that she felt
680XO, and IBM's RISC System/6000
POWER architecture" as target plat-, that the agreement is an indication of
the industry reacting to the perception
forms and states that Apple and IBM
that one or two companies have too
will "use objectmriented technologyin.
dominant a role.
future product offerings, as well as in
"It was commonly felt that Microsoft
current operating systems, assuring
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new environments."
of both firmL We now have two of the
IBM and Apple also stated plans to
major firms in (he industry joining
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together to redress the balance," she
the IBM world by jointly developing
and marketing networking and com"I think that this is good for the
munications products to extend the

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been talking to IBM for m onths and

contingent on the execution of defini-

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as powerful aseveryone begins to

beheve. It may be confusing to users as
it indicates that we may never have
only one standard but I t h ink that it
also protects the user by encouraging
diversity and innovation," she added.
Dyson said that she also felt that the

projected alliance is good for both

firms, "The most important thing for
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regard itself as an underdog and is

responding aggressively. It also, by

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important of value which IBM can benefit from," she told Newsbytes.
" Its agreem en t w i t h G O , w h i l e

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m icroprocessor architecture . B u t
Coldman said, "I want to underscore

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on the market in 1990, while companies with topeelling portables, such as
Toshiba, did well. IDC said portable
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Sharp names Second

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J.B. Marketing will d i stribute

Sharp's laptop and notebook computers and its laser printers to about 4,500
dealers and value-added resellers

(VARs) across Canada. It is Sharp

Canada's second d istributor, a

spokeswoman told Newsbytes, joining

the smaller Ottawabased Srm ADL

Nine-year-old J.B. Marketing is a

fully Canadian owned company with
more than 100 employees.
Contact: Sharp Electronics of Canada, 416-t802100

Canada's Top Telecom

Conference Set for Alberta
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, JUL 8 '
(NB) The C a n adian B u s i ness
Telecommunications Alliance (CBTA)
will hold its 1991 annual conference at
the Edmonton Convention Centre
September 8 through 12. The group
expects more than 1,000 telecommunications users to attend.
The theme ofthisyear'sconference
is Globalization: The New Reality. The
eynote speaker is Ricardo
Frank Semler, author of Turning The
Tables and an authority on alternative
management styles. Semler is president of Semco, a Brarilian machinery

firstlyk

ence William G. Davis, honorary chairof

th e

C om m un i c a t i o n s

Competition Coalition, a telecom

industry lobby group, will speak Davis
was premier of the province of Ontario
&om 1971 to 1985.
The thirdl y keynoter is Dr. Kerry
Crofton, a psychologist and developer
of T h e
Ch a l l e nges P r o gramReducing Stress in the Workplace. Also

co-author of Th e Healthy TypeA,

Crofton will discuss her theories on the
Type A personality.
More than 100 vendors are also to
exhibit their wares on the conference's
show floor. More information is available from the CBTA's headquarters in
Toronto at 4168654998 (fax 416865-

0869).

Merisel to sell Software

for Sun Workstations
T OR O N T O , O N T A R I O , JUL 5
(NB) Expanding its foray into the
workstation market, distributor Merisel

Canada has signed up three vendors of

Unix software for Sun workstations.
Merisel's four-monthold Workstation

Group now handles products from

about 10 vendors for Sun workstations,

Product Manager Lynda Tobin told

Newsbytes.
Merisel will distribute FrameMaker
desktop publishing software from
Frame Technology, HCLeXceed/W Xt erminal e m u l a t io n so ftware f r o m

Hummingbird Communications, and

office and graphic arts software from
Island Graphics.
Tobin said Merisel Canada is handling only workstation products that
work with Sun workstations, which the
company also distributes, but some of
the products work with other vendors'

hardware as welL
"What we are trying to do is provide
a oneatop shopping environment for
Unix resellers," she said.
Sun Canada signed Merisel as a distributor in February. At the time, Sun

s pokeswoman Carol S m it h t o l d
Newsbytes the move reflected the
Canadian operation's growing emphasis on indirect sales through distribu-

tors. Sun Canada also has a distribution agreement with C o m puterland

Canada.
ContecL David Teny, Merisel Canada, 4164602684, fax 41 6-660-1 560

Academy of Learninl,
to
enter US Market

THORNHILL, ONTARIO, JUL 10

(NB) The Academy of Learning, a
chain of computer training centers,
announced plans to invade the U.S.
market later this year. Partner Ben
Shtang told Newsbytes the rollmut will
be slow and methodical, with all &anchises controlled directly by the
Academy, and no unlimited "master
&anchises" grantecL
Shtang told Newsbytes that the
chain now has 50 centers throughout
Canada. Each drop-in center is an

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oSice of 1,000-1,200 square feet, with

identical appointments to save money.

Commodore Announces New CDTV Features

Courses on popular hardware and software combine a u di o c assettes and

workbooks, which students can take
home with them. Courses range from a

MAIDENHEAD,
B E R K SHIRE,
ENGLAND JUL 3 (NB) In what many

effect is reported by observers to be sat-

view as an attempt to breathe fresh life

speed across the screen.

According to Commodore, no additional hardware or software is needed

in to the

isfactory until objects move at high

A m ig a C D T V p r o j ec t,

Commodore has announced several

new features for its new multimedia

$125 typing course to an administrative

assistant diploma costing$9,200.

to use the CDXL features software

developers simply need the specifications from Commodore to know how it
all works. According to sources close to
Commodore, veryearly users of older
models of the CDTV will be able to
upgrade their operating system software by slotting in new chips.

computer. All of the new features

enhance the unit's video capabilities.
One new feature, CDXL, lets developers displayvideo images from a CDROM disk on screen. CDXL can display about 12 frames per second, or
half the number of frames normally
used for full-motion video filmL The

S htang said that w he n st ud en t s

learn with specially modified software,

they quickly gain use of what they' ve
learned. "When you train on that, you
get the original software at the ofFice
and wait for the beep. Our system is
based on the o r i ginal software. It' s

integrated with our own manual and

tapes. But you run Lotus 1-2-3 just as SSSI
Des
you learn atthe Academy."
Shtang said that, as in Canada, the
Academy's centers in the U.S. will be
dustered there are 20 in Toronto, for
instance. "We' re strong believers in giving technical support to our centers.
W e won't scatter the m a r o un d t h e

U.S.," he said.

earnig
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s oftware .

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T OR O N T O , ON T A R IO , JUL 17
(NB) Commodore has added a notebook computer using the Intel 386SX
processor to the I n te l 2 8 6-based
machine it already offered in the
Canadian market. The C386SX-LT
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pounds) and comes with a liquid crystal VGAatandard display.
The machine also has an S2 kcy keyboard,one megabyte of main meinory,
a 40-megabyte hant disk drive, a 1.44megabyte S.&mch diskette drive, parallel and serial ports, and a slot for
adding an optional 2,400-bit-per+econd modem. Memory can be expand-

"The computers are down."

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you spend countless hours debugging
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Conunodore said the rnachine will
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Borland to Acquire Ashton-Tate

SCOT'S VALLEY, CALIFORNIA,
JUL 10 (NB) In a inove that has
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Ashton-Tate Corp.
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common stock having a niarket value

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it' ll be a matter of which interface style
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it easier to share data between dBASE
and Paradox and other Borland prod-

ucts," Liskin added.

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the rollerwoaster court suit AT started

against Fox Software charging Fox had

violated dBASE copyrights. The suit
was thought to be ended when the
Judge ruled in preliminary hearings in
December,

1 9 9 0 t h a t A s h ton Tate

"tricked" the copyright oKce by not

disclosing that dBASE was based on

JPLDIS, a language developed by Jet

Propulsion Labs and in the public
domain. This left dBASE II and III
products without any copyright,
However,the judge reversed his decision in April of this year and now the
case has to be tried.

Kahn said, regarding the acquisition, "We intend to protect custoiner

investments in each company's products, including Paradox and dBASE

products, and provide a smooth migration path to future technologies."
AT.has also had some pro6tability
problems. The company reported in
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quarter.

William P. Lyons, chairman of

Ashton-Tate, said, "This transaction

pi'ovides outstanding value for our

shareholders and expands our ability
to meet customer's current and evolving computing needs. Customers will
benefit from our complementary product lines, distribution channels,
Ashton-Tate's extensive global operations and Borland's object~riented
technology."
Borland oalcials said they expect to

achieve economies of scale and significant operational efnciencies as a result

of the merger.
Contact: Borland, Tei: 4084N-1624, AshtonTate, 213-3294000.

Novell and Digital Research to Merge

PROVO, UTAH, JUL I'y (NB) In
an agreement signed today, Digital
Research has become a wholly~wned
subsidiary of Novell, Inc.
Both companys' boards of directors
have approved the deal, but it still
requires approval of Digital Research
stockholders. The company says no difSculties are expected in obtaining that
approval. The merger is expected to be
completed by October of this year.
Diy'tal Research, headquartered in
Monterey, California, originated such
industry standards as the CP/M opezating system, DR-DOS and Concurrent
DOS. Novell, Inc markets network

operating systems, and is the largest

outside investor in U n i x System
Laboratories,the developer of Unix
System V Release 4.
Under theterms of the agreement,
holders of DR common stock, convert-

ible securities and options will be

exchanged for $L5 million worth of
newly issued shares of Novell common
stock,
In a prepared statement, Novell
said it is responding to customer
demand for tightly coupling network
operating system software with desktop
and host computer operating systems.
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Dick Williams, president and CEO
of DR, said that the merger gives the
company signifi
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through Novell's relationswith leading
computer vendors, its presence in the
systems integration market, and distribution, marketing, education and customer support resources.

Digital operates an engineering

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graphical user interface technology

and FlexOS, a real~ e , m ultitasking,
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Intel family o f

m i c r oprocessors.

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was not disctosecL

Contact Peter Troop, Novell, 408%73%361.

DRI, Novell
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C OL O R A D O

ORADO, JUL 1 9 ( N B) Industry

watchers are now speculating on
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pinch. Dean W i tter a n alyst Tim
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Borland to purchase Ashton-Tate, publisher of dBASE, with which Microsoft

h as sai d

it

pl a ns t o

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(NB) PC O f f ic e I n c o r porated
(PCOI) has announced it is shipping
i ts T100A Network Adapter. Th e

DM/NOVell ~f nuaf P q g2Z

T100A is the Srst twisted pair local area

network (LAN) adapter with Fiber

Distribution Data Interface (FDDI)

c om p e t e .

Additionally, Microsoft has recently

been the target of investigation by the

performance of 100 megabits-per~c-

ond (Mbps), the company claims.

Federal Trade Commission for possible

The T100A Network Adapter is a

16-bit ISA-bus compatible half card,
that supports direct desk-todesk connections without the need for a hub,

antiwompetitive behavior. While it will

undoubtedly be a l ong t ime b efore
that suit is settled, a finding against

, Microsoft, analysts say, could seriously

although star hubs are available, company officials said.

affect its market share.

To confuse the operating system

picture even further, IBM is promising
OS/2 release 2.0 will be "a better
Windows than Windows and better
DOS than DOS," presumably in an
attempt to keep buyers from going to

"We' re excited about this because

oesk topcomputers

we can now get fiber opticperformance at the cost of copper," John

Ford, salesmanager for CPOI, said.
The T100A is priced at $595 retail,

286-16MR
386sx-16 MR
386-20, 25, 33 MR
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which is less than half of other fiber

Windows. And Microsoft has said that

NotebooksandLaptops
286-16 MR
388sx- 16 MR
388sx-20 MR
20, 40, 60 or100megharddrive

optic and proprietary adapters that

range in pricefrom $1,500 to $7,000
per adapter,the company claimed.
Other fast adapters also require the
more expensive Gber optic cable, but
Ford said the T100A adapters could be

Windows NT (a version of its New

Technology operating system kernel)
will be released next year with DOS
and Windows applications interfaces,
but without an interface to OS /2.
Microsoft has said that OS/2 interface
support will be available as an option
later and eventually in OS/2 release

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connected with "twisted pair lines most

companies probablyalready have in

their of6ces right now."
The T100A Network Adapter is
designed for the Novell network stan-

3.0. Microsoft turned over further

development of OS/2, release 2.0 to

IBM, who has said the product would
ship before the end of this year.
Observers suggest that if Microsoft

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r eadership ~

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H OUSTON, TEXAS, JUL

11

(NB) Compaq Computer Corp.'s

personal computers have been chosen
as the top choice for AutoCAD application for the second consecutive year by
readers of Cadence Magazine.
AutoCAD is a desktop PC program
used by architects, engineers, and
designersfor computer-aided design
(CAD) work. Cadence Magazine is
published for professional AutoCAD
users, and lists its circulation at 60,000
worldwide. Compaq says it was chosen
two-toone over its competitors in the

D a t a quest

reported that in 1990 Compaq shipped

more personal computers worldwide
into the CAD m a r ketplace than any

other computervendor, according to a

statement released by Compaq.
In June of this year Newsbytes
reported that Compaq had introduced
itsDeskpro 486/50L, a 50 megahertz
computer targeted mainly at the engineering and scientific community, i'requent users of CAD programs. The
486/50L is reported to run 50 percent
faster than the 486 using a 33 megahertz Intel microprocessor.
Contact Compaq, 713-374-0484

Tseng Labs Enhances ET4000 VIA PrecluctLine

NEWl'OWN, PENNSYLVANIA,JUL
9 (NB) Tseng Labs has announced
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Ceetirsssed
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Microsoft's announcement, made

on the same day, that it will ship OS/2

version 2.0 to its OEMs (orfginal equip-

I doubt that the new firm will be supporting CP/M either. Firms make a
mistake when they try to protect the

past. Windows is protecting DOS and

m ent m a n u f a c t u r e rs ) " s o m e t i m e
around the end of theyear" contained

that's why it's less robust than OS/2."

faintpraise for OS/2 and reaairmed

Microsoft to Ship
OSI2 Version2 by
End of Year

Microsoft's commitment to MS-DOS

and Windows.

In announcing the shipment schedule, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft senior

vice president, of systems software,
said, "IBM, recogniring the speed with

Contact: Esther Dyson, 212-758-3434

Windows applicatictns, is promising

that this first release of 2.0 will provide
'better Windows than Windows,' and
has defined running Windows 8.0
applications as a requirement for OS/2
to succeed. We are pleased that IBM

REDMOND, WASHINGTON, JUL

5 (NB) Microsoft Corporation is
extending the contracts of OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) who
are currently licensed to sell OS/2 version 1.9. The contract extensions will
allow the OEMs to sell version 2.0 of
OS/2 when it is shipped near the end
of 1991. Microsoft said it extended the

w hich c u s t o m er s

ar e m o v ing t o

has taken to heart the need to do a

contracts in order that OEMs can stay

great job of supporting Windows users

in the first release of OS/2 2.0, but we

competitive with IBM in terms of pricing and availability.

believe I B M ' s co m m i t m en t i s very

Under the terms of a joint development agreement between Microsoft

and IBM, IBM took over development

aggressive."
Ballmer continued, "Microsoft is

the only vendor to supply OEMs with a

full line of Intel-based operating syst ems DOS, Windows, and OS/ 2 .
Microsoft will enable OEM customers
to easily offer all these systems, and
market forces can determine their
respective success. Microsoft strategy
and focusfor the desktop remains cen-

of version 2.0 while Microsoft jumped

tered on Windows."

tract extensions will allow Microsoft's

Esther Dyson, editor and publisher

of Release 1.0, commented, saying,

OEMs to ship at th e same time.

Microsoft presently licenses about 50
OEMs to sell OS/2 version l.x, and

"Products coming from the new soft-

ware firmwon't be available for a few

years and it makes sense to support
current systems. Let's face it, DOS is a

single-tasking limited operating system.

- "A commitment to success"

CAUDA

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ahead to start work on version 8.0.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said that the

majority of the version 2.0 code was
already written before IBM took over
the project.
IBM has said it will ship version 2.0
before theend of the year. The con-

Microsoft said it expects those OEMs

would also offer version 2.0.

IBM is promising that version 2.0
will provide "better Windows than

Preparing fmancial state-

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What Is a LAN Composed Oft

A LAN is a combination of computers, cables, adapter electronics, LAN
management software and of course
F

5. Simultaneous keying into an application. A LAN application program

lets two people key into it at once.
For example,two people could key
general ledger transactions at the
same time, with the program automatically coordinating their work so

Introduction
A LAN is a Local Area Network a
way oftying a group of peilonal computers in a single building together to
let them share information.

What Is a LAN For'F

the two users do not interfere with

1. File sharing. A LAN leis many users

share a single copy of a flle stored
'on a central file server computer.
For example, a lawyers' oKce might
have a common pool ofdocuments

each other. Note that only special

LAN versions of programs allow
simultaneous keying. Ordinary programs allow only one person at a
time to use the program on a given
set of flles.
6. Printer sharing. Using a LAN, you

that the v a r i ous secretaries can

access and update.

2. File transfer. A LAN lets you copy
flles &om machine to machine without having to exchange floppies.
S. Application accessibility. For example, a LAN lets anyone run the
accounting software &om any of the
workstations. Even an ordinary
LAN~blivious program can be used
this way.
4. Application sharing. A LAN lets two
people use the same copy of the MS
Word 5.5 word processing program.
However, two people cannot edit
the same document simultaneously.

can share one or more laserprinters

between ~
work stations.(If all
you need is printer sharing, there
are much cheaper andsimpler ways
to get it than using a LAN.)
'y. Electronic intercom. You can type
short messages and send them over
the LAN to other people sitting at
c omputers in o t he r p a r t s of t h e

building. The ordinary telephone is

faster and more convenient, but a
LAN E-Mail system can take mes-

LAN application software. U n fortunately, it is impossible to talk about

each part without making references to
the other parts I have not yet discussed. If you have troubles understanding, try skimming, then coming
back for a second reading.

Workstations
A LAN is made up of computers.
There are two kinds: the worksiations,

usually manned by people; and servers,

which are usually shoved off in a doset
somewhere. The workstation does
work only for the person sitting in
&ont of it. The servers do work for the
whole network of workstations.
In many business environments,
MS-DOS workstations are usually intermediate speed AT, SX or 386 DX computerL They might have 1 to 4 MB of
RAM. They often have good~uality
color orgrayscale VGA monitors and
highgualitykeyboards, however even
the cheapest XTs are sometimes used
as workstationL They usually have an
inexpensive, 40 MB hard disk

the workstations primarily storing

and retrieving data from files shared

onem
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their ph

The servers are usually SLst 586 or

486 computers, 25 or 55 MHz. They
might have 8 to 16 MB of RAM. They
usually have only monochrome monitors, and inexpensive keyboards. No
one looks at or touches these much.

However, they have expensive, high

capacity (BOO+ MB), SLst ESDI or SCSI
hard disks. In a very small LAN, using
only primitive file sharing, you might
get away with only an SX as a file server.
In very small L A Ns, a s i n gle
machine can sometimes act asa work-

station AND a server. However, serv.

ing an entire network is a big job, not
leaving much spare power tohandle
the worksiation duties. Normally you
would use such a server also as a workstation only in an emergency or for
casiud use.

Under heavy load,ifthere are 10

workstations and one server, each
workstation can only command I/20
of the server's resourceL In practice it
works out better than t h is, because

most workstations are idle most of the

time. As long as no other workstation
is using the server, yours can command
100% of iisresourceL

Servers must be high~uality, heavy

duty machines since, in serving the
whole net, they do many times the vvork

Servers
A server is a computer that serves all

sages when people are away &om

on its diskL

of an ordinary worksiation computer.

Cable
The workstations must be connect-

ed with cable oAen shielded ~

pairs or coax, but sometimes just cheap
phone wire or even expensive fiber
optics. ' Sometimes a single piece of
cable snakes &om siation to station, ~

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iting all the servers and workstations.

This is called a bus or daisy-chain
topology. Somehmes there is sepirate

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cable running &om a central place to

each station. T h i s i s called a star.

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If you have ta run cables thmugh
walls or ceilings, installing it can be the
most expensive part of setting up the
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distressing to install ordinary cable,
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A LAN adapter card looks much

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PAPER AUG '91 3 3
pie of connectors on the back to attach
the incoming and outgoing cables.

There are a great many LAN managers available. A few of the better

Ethernet connectors have a single T

connector. Some cards have two con-

known are:

nectoxs, one for each of two possible

kinds of cable )rou might use.
Often the LAN adapter card is a

Novell Netware: for mid-range nets.

Microsoft OS/2 LAN Managers for
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Banyan Vinesr for WANS (Wide Areas
Nets) interconnecting a variety of
mixed-vendor main&ames spread out

computer m its own right I t

h stens to

all the tra8ic going by on the cable,

and filters out just the messages des-

tined for your workstation and hands

them over to your computer, only
when it is xeady to attend to them.
When your workstation wants to
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LA a s tics for small nets,

across the country. I will discuss only

the 6rst three in detail.
Product LANtasdc Publisher. Artisoft
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You have probably seen the cartoon

ads in PC Magsrssaa featuring a small,

woolly, smug ram. LANtastic NOS

(Network Operating System) is a very
popular LAN because itis cheap, simple to install and simple to operate. It
wins the PC Magsisiae Editor's Choice
regularly. LANtaatic also has a very
small RAM footprint. This means it
takes up a remarkably small amount of
your user RAM space hence the

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Adapters range in price &om under

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get for your money? Primarily speed.

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The faster adapters can push data

faster through the cable, and pester

your workstation less, allowing your
computer to do more useful work.
Wry a small IAN of four workslations
and one server, blinchng speed is not
that important. However if you had
100 stations, those 100 stationsare still
sharing one cable, so speed becomes
crilicaL

Application Seftwam
Beides the hardware, you have to
buy supervising software to rmn the
MN. You need a copy for each workstation and for each sexver. Scmnetimes
the softwme comes with a licence for 2,
5, 10, 50 or unlixmited computers.
In addition, you have to buy new
application software if you want to get
the true benefxts of your LAN. If your
accounting package is not a special
LAN version, it will only be able to
allow one person at a time to use it. If
you have a woxd processor, you have to
buy a hcenseto allow you to use it on
more than one station at a time.

Companies which have been relying

on piracy by buying a single copy of a
p rograxn and using i t o n m a n y
machines may be in for a rude shock,
Pixacy is mare difBcult on a IAN since
the prolpams can watich what is going
on overall on th e ne t an d b l ock
attempts io use the proipsuns xllegaHy.
The LAN software does not replace
wrxrhstation DOS, it augments it Thus
you stil
lneed a copy of DOS for each
workstation. Sometimes you also need
a copy' of DOS for each server as well.

KindsefLAN Software
Just asyou need DOS to manage
the applications in a standexlone computer, you need LAN management
software to control the flow of maessages between slatloxLL
In the simplest case this software

makes the disk drive on the server

appear to be an extra drive (perhaps
F ) on each workstation. Most ordinary pxxs
igraxns are thus totally unaware
of the LAN, even though they use files
on the fake E: dxxve. Hovfever, if programs want go do anything more interesting than read fxles, they need to
converse directly with the LAN software. One c ommon protocol (language) for doing this is called NETBIOS. Another is caQed Novell API

visual pun smail RAM. This leaves

room for you to run your application
programs normaHy.
What is the catch? LANtastic is a
pure DOS system. Both the servers
and workstation use DOS. Seattle
Computing invented DOS a long time
ago, before anyone even thought
about LANs or even hard disks for personal computers. Even the new DOS
5.0 suffers &om these limitations built
into DOS at its inception. DOS can do
only one thing at a time. A server
attempts to look atter the needs of the
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$2+9450 user $4,194, 100 user $6594
Netware 386: 20 user $4,194, 100 user $8,394,
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methods DOS uses are increchbly inefficient if you have large files or large

Novell Netware

handling the request pileups. Even if

DOS has two disks, it can only operate

Novell was one of the first companies to build LANs. The big advantages of their Netware LAN manage-

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A LANtastic system will fall down

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ment software are:

1. More LAN software will work on

Novell than on any other kind of
network
2. Novell is software only. You can
select your hardware Rom scores of
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amount of power you need. You

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S. Novell nets can grow to enormous
size.
4. Novellhas invented severalways of
LANs getting
more performance out ofthe hardware, by using clever sokwsm.
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to $880 Canadian list per station for
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2. It is complicated. Count on hiring

LAN gurus to get your LAN working and keep it working.
3. It has a large RAM footprint (in the
order of 60K). Novell takes up so
much RAM, you may have to work
to shoehorn your applications into
your workstation. T o run large
applications, you may have to
reboot to remove the LAN software
to get enough RAM to run, then
reboot again when you are done to
reconnect to the LAN. However, if
you have SX or M6 workstations
with 2 MB or more of RAM and use
QEMM/DOS 5.0, sometimes you
can load part of the Novell software
above the 640K mark, freeing up
conventional RAM.
NoveR has simplified their product line
to two versions of the software.
Version 2.2 works on 80286 and 80886
s erver computers. Y o u c a n b u y
licences for 5, 10 , 5 0 o r

1 0 0 -users.

Version S.ll runs on 80886 servers

only. Version S.
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20, 100 or 250 users. If you needed 21
users, you would have to buy a 100 user
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Novell offerssatisfying speed, even
with the same Ethernet hardware you
might have first used for a s t ar t er
L ANtastic. T h e s e c r e t i s N o v e l l

d umped DOS altogether for t h e

servers, though they still use it in the
workstations. In its place, they wrote a
new efficient o p e rating system
designed Rom the ground up to act as
a LAN server. I t can easily handle
many tasks at once. It stores files on
disk with a highwKciency directory system so it can find thesn rapidly.
Product tAN Manager V 2.0
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OS/2 LANs
OS/2 is a new operating system to

replace DOS. Microsoft and IBM start-

ed from scratch to write an efficient,

bullet-proof operating system that
could run multiple programs at once.
In addition, OS/2 breaks the 640K barrier. In OS/2 you can write programs
t hat take up t o 1 6 M B o f R A M .
(Release 2.0 will support up to 4 gigabytes of RAM with an 80M6, Mei t
machine)
Trying to make DOS act as a LAN
file server operating system is a bit like
asking your nine~
mid g randmother to perform triple axel figure skating
jumps. She tries bravely, but is just a
little too old.

Microsoflt designed the OS/2 operating system from scratch expressly for

complexjobs like acting as a server.

Starting from common roots, IBM
developed IBM L A N S e rver and
Microsoftdeveloped LAN Manager to
add the specific LAN features to OS/2.
An OS/2 fileserver can do more

T HE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 3 5
than just manage Sles for workstations,
it can do computational tasks on their

behalf as well. Computational filtering

is especially important for keeping net-

3. OS/2 is still new. Software, like people and fine wines, needs time to
mellow (to get the bugs out and to
fine4une the performance)). Also,

w ork tr a f fi c d o w n t o a d u l l r o a r .

there arenot nearly as many oKChe-

Consider the following example:

You work in a sales organization.

shelfapphcations ready for OS/2 as

You are sitting at a workstation. You

want to comb the entire database of

80,000 customers for the 50 or so people who bought more than $1000 over
the last six months. The traditional
way to handle this is to have a program
running in your workstation ask the
f ile server to send you e ach cl i e n t
record in turn - . all 30,000 of them

over the LA T h en your workstation

program calculatesthe amount each
bought in th e l ast six m o n th s an d
m akes a short l i st o f t h e b i g p u r -

chasers. As you do this, your c~orkeis are cursing you under their breaths

because you have flooded the LAN

with 80,000 messages, which is slowing
everyone down.
If you had a LAN designed around
OS/2, aclever programmer might handle it this way.
Your workstation sends a message to

the OS/2 server asking it to send you

there are for Novell.

IBM has created huge amounts of software to link OS/2 LANs with their
mainframes. Like Novell, OS/2 can
work with various types of LAN hardware, including Ethernet and Token
Ring. OS/2, used both on servers and
workstations, teams well with Token

Ring forlarge corporate LANS.

Based on theoretical potential,
OS/2 should eventually win out over
all the other types of LAN. Up to new,
OS/2 marketing has been inept and
OS/2 has fallen far short of its poten-

tial. However, the foundation work is

gradually paying off. The electronic
nets, such as BIX, are abuzz with talk

of amazinglygood OS/2 Release 2.0

beta test results.

software with just any LAN hardware.

go looking for such clients. As the serv-

Only certain magic combinations will

er task Gnds the 50 big sales, it sends

them to the program running in your
workstation. Your co-workers are no
longer angry with you because this
time you only triggered 50 messages

work. For example, LANtastic works

with LANtastic hardware or generic
Ethernet hardware. Novell works with
ArcNet, Ethernet or Token Ring.

over the LAN the records of the big

LANtastic Hardware

Processes). W h a t is the difference?

OS/2 is more generalpurpose than

Novell. OS/2 tasksare just ordinary
programs. You can take any ordinaiy
program and run it unmodified on an
OS/2 server. In contrast, VAPs are
proprietary to NovelL You cannot run
ordinary DOS or OS/2 programN on a
Novell server.
Novell has recently introduced a
new improved form of VAP called an
NLM (Netware Loadable Module) for
version 3.11. They are more like traditional programs than VAPs; e.g. you
c an start a n d

stop t hem w i t hout

rebooting.
What is the catch? The problems
w ith O S/ 2 a n d M i c r osoft L A N
Manager are:
l. OS/2 keeps changing, Microsoft
and IBM cannot make up their
minds on exactly what OS/2 should
look like or do. This means if you
use OS/2, you have to keep running just to stand stilL
2. OS/2 is complicated. You wilt need
expert help. This is less
of a problem if you planned to write
your ow n p r o g r ams a n yway.
Because it is complicated, LAN
Manager has a huge 130 KB RAM
footprint. This sort of overhead is
only acceptable when all the workstations too, run OS/2 instead of
DOS.

continuin
g

and ENS newswire services. VP also gives you unlimited

access to public domain software libraries - with no daily
downloadlimit,online games, andprivate accessgroup
featuring previews of new commands.

Your choice of LAN software man-

things at once, it just starts off a task to

OS/2 tasks, called VAPs (Value Added

directory space, free anonymous mail, and Bee accessto UPI

ager determines which applications

will run on your LAN. Your choice of
hardware determines how fast they will

Novell has a something similar to

like free internationalelectronic mail and messaging, free local

types of LAN Hardware

the records of only those clients who

spent morc than $1000 in the last six
months. Since the server can do many

spenders. This causes barely a ripple.

with MIMILI%!'I VIPprivileges.,

Y ou cannot mix and m a tch L A N

, ,

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Become amember and see how faryou'llgo.

It is l i t tl e c o nfusing because
LANtastic is both a software LAN manager and also proprietary hardware.
The details of how LANtastic hardware
works are secret.
The hardware comes in two ver-

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Arc Net
ArcNet is one of the oldest types of
LAN hardware. It was originally a propi'ietary scheme of the Datapoint
Corporation, but today many companies make ArcNetwompatible gear.
ArcNet is a httle slow, but it is forgiving

of minor errors in installation. It is

known for solid reliability. It is easy to
diagnose and bypass cabling problems.
It costs a little less than Ethernet.

Ethernet
Ethernet LANs allow you to inter-

connect a wide variety of equipment

including Unix, Apple and mainframe
gear. Youcan buy Ethernet cards from
dozens ofcompeting manufacturers.
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This competition ensures you will
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But, even more important, if your chosen vendor goes bankrupt in a few
years, your investment in the LAN is
protected. You can still repair, expand
or upgrade the LAN with compatible
equipment &em other Ethernet manu-

two stations will start to talk at once

and neither gets through. E t h e r net

facturers.
Ethernet comes is three flavours

them to go fixnt.

(Thinnet, Untwisted Pair (UTP) and

Thicknet in order of ascending price)
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span a larger distance, but they are
much more expensive.

Token Ring
Except for fiber optics, Token Ring
is the most expensive type of LAN
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u ses either a shielded or

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Ethernet LANs work by generally
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at the first opportunity like a sedate

cocktail party.
You can probably guess what happens as the traKc mounts. Sometimes

LAN adapters have special hardware

(CSMA/CD which stands for Carrier
Sense Multiple Access/ Collision
Detect ) to detect the collisionand
they each back off a random amount
of time, effectively allowing one of
If trafEc is very high, the f'requency
of collisions rises higher and higher
and the response time becomes worse
and worse. The net spends more time
recovering &om collisions than it does

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AUG '91

heart now; you have the right to

stations before one could send a mess age, then wait again as th e t o k e n
made another circuit for the receiver

speak." A s s oo n a s a w o r k station
receives the token, it passes it on to the

the passing pattern to give the token

more often to the more talkative stations.

next workstation in line. O nly the

to have the opportunity to reply. If

Watch what happens when the traf-

workstation with the token ever speaks.

you listened in on the net, even when

fic starts to mount. I magine the worst

the stations were sending no messages,

you woulcl hear the continuous babble
of token passing.
Why then endure this overhead? It
turns out it is not as ineKcient as you
might 6rst think. The secret is, the

case when every station wants to send a

message. The process is completely
orderly, with no lost time from collisions. The eaiciency actually becomes
higher as the tra8ic mounts because
you spend less time passing the token

Every other station must remain silent.

If a workstation wants to send a mes-

sage to another station, it must wait

patiently for the token to be passed to
it. Only then can it send its message.
Then it passes the token on.
This sounds like so much bureaucracy. What if only two stations wanted
to talk to each other? They would
each have to wait while the token
wended its way around the other 100

path the token takes need not be a sim-

to stations that don't w ant it, I f y o u

ple loop through all seations. You can

anange a pattern to give highgriority
stations more frequent cracksat the
token. You can aho dynamically alter

know the token passing pattern, you

can calculate the worstwase conditions
and guarantee highgriority stations a
level of service, irrespective of what the

other stations do. With Ether n e, you

cannot make such promises.
Sometimes a station fumbles and
"drops" the token. LAN stations watch

each otherand have a complex protocol to regenerate a lost token. Token

Ring is quite a bit more complicated
than Ethernet, and as you might
expect, the LAN adapter carcls are correspondingly more expensive.
Which is better? Up to 5090 loading Ethernet beats out Token Ring
because it has less overhead. A b ove

50%, Token Ring wins because it

wastes no time with collisions.

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Please do NOT skip this section. I
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cannot record the truth. People
who would never dream of rifl
ing
the president's desk will cheerily
brovsie his IAN 6les.
8. Fraudi If all employees knew they
had access to the accounts payable
files, a few might be tempted to
have the computer issue them a
cheque.
4. Malicious Damage: If a disgruntled
employee had access to all files, he
could subtly corrupt them, so that
by the time the
were detect-

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PAPER AUG '91
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logged on.
The problem withpasswords are:
1. People choose words easy to guess
names of loved ones, initials or
heart-wordslike "love" or "peace."
Ideally, passwords should contain
some numbers or punctuation to

make them h a r der t o g u e ss.

Managerscan monitor passwords and

words.
5. Employees will happily divulge their
passwords to anyone they consider
trustworthy. When I worked at a
large crown corporation, I could
easily get users to give me their
passwords just by asking for them.
They would tell me so I could help
solve their computer problems. It is
difficult to get employees to co-

ask users to change any easy ones.

2. People write down their passwords.

If an intruder finds odd words scribbled on bits of paper in a desk, he

operate in security. T hey perceive

it as just a nuisance.
4. Users fail to change their passwords. If users change their pass-

can be almost certain they are pass-

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Administrator
You will need to designate one individual who will be the network administrator. His/her job is to manage the
network, keep track of passwords,
determine access to different files, set
up new users, mstall software and in

general troubleshoot the system.

Safety First.....

If a single computer breaks down,

You might use QIC, 4 mm DAT or 8

mm helical scan cartridges.
Backup also means redundancy.
You are better off to have two medium-

resolut tons. NANAO not only promtses

size server computers than one giant

Backup

without the flicker. Flicker causes eye

For most office equipment, the issue of

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Are you aware that a monitor isn' t

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your busmess will cany on as usual. If

a LAN breaks down, you have chaos.
Nobody can do anything. The entire
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This means you have to get serious
about backup, redundancy and power
protection.
Backup means you must'have a
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high resolution, they also deliver-

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one. Ifone breaks down, you can li

mp
along with the other.
Since a serverfailing causes such
havoc, it pays to buy high-quality,
heavy~ty equipment especially the
hard disks. LANS give server disks a
real workoutl I f yo u need to economize, skimp on the workstations not

the servers. Happily, you don't need

niaiiy seivel's.

Power Protection
Nearly all programs will to some

pie know how to select and

extent corrupt the files they are work-

use a good monitor. They

ing on at the time of a power failure.

For a word processor, this means you
lose your keying since the last time you
saved thefi
le. For an accounting program it may mean you lose everything
you keyed since the last time you saved
the files to tape. A power &ilure has a
devastating eFect on the whole compa-

know how important it is

to their bu'siaess to pick

the right monitor.
All you need to do is
just take one look to real-

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ize the value of NANAO monitors. They

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All of their monitor's are designed

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To protect yourself,place your

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industry because they keep seeiag the

another 10 minutes enough time to

future in product design and manufac-

shut the server down gracefully without

losing your files. In addition, a UPS
isolates the server from the spikes and
dips in the AC power. Without the
UPS, these spikes might be sufficient

screen.
Dynamic Beam Spot Control is used

to provide the best possible focus, both

No Flicker.....

turing.

Most monitors say they' ll do certain

to reboot the computer or cause it to

SIMPLY THC8%$T.

temporarily malfunction. Such spikes

or sags cause just as much havoc as a
fullkledged blackout. Even worse, very
large spikes could permanently damage the computer.
A clever UPS can tell the LAN man-

ager to gracefully close down the files,

when power fails, all without human
intervention.

You can use a l ower-cost SPS

(Standby Power System) to protect
yourself from blackouts, along with a
filter to help clean out the noise from

the AC supply. Be warned, many

UPSes sold are actually SPSes in disguise. An SPS, on its own, does not
protectyou from spikes and surges.
Anything in the spec about "switching
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UPS.

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THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 43
Network). Have a look in the July 1991
issue of Bytemagazine at my "Remate

buy one too complex, or without a sufflcient growth path, you may end up
throwing it out and starting over &om

Connections" arIRcle.
If a LAN sounds a little too rich for
your blood, have a look at the August
1989 Thc Gn/tputsr Paper for my piece
o n low cost alternatives to L A Ns . I f
you can't 12nd copies, give me a call at

scratch.

Even if you feel confident enough

to choose a LAN on your own, it might
be wise to hire someone with experi-

ence forjust a few hours to verify your

plans. The expert may also be able to
warn you of costs you forgot to budget.
Installing a LAN can be a humbling
experience. You must understand
jumpering, addressing, UMBs, IC t

Get
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only

I will be putting an a
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August 17, Please do not register

addresses, IRfod)s, page frames, etc.

unless you are sure you can attend

90% of installing a LAN is resolving

because there is room for only 15 peo-

conflicts with software and hardware

ple.

you already have instsdled.

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Special thanks go to Barry Nance,

ssra rrrs om.

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author of Ne trrtorh Programming in C,

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Learning INore
If you want to get a deeper introduction to LANs, read Michael Miller's
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February 1990 issue ofThe Computer
Papdr. If the computers you need to

About the Author

Raedy Green, president of Canadian Mind
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custom computers. He also writes custom camputer software, primarily far nan-profit organizations and charities, and offers training and cansulling.

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Windows &
lletWare
By Pckk~fn
Ester Stage Right: Wiaelows 9.0Microsoft's latest and most successful

attempt to take over the graphical face

of computing.

Eater Stage Left Netware

Novell's
very succesful attempt to define the
standard networhng platform.
VoicePom the aadieace: To Windows
or not to Windows my NetWare, that is
the question. W h e ther 'tis nobler to

stay with the command line...

he promise held out by the tight

integration of NetWare and
Windows is very attractive rows
of multitasking, graphical-faced PCbased workstations cooperating seamlessly across a network. Girl, I tell you,
there'd be no more problems then t
So, let's do it Get that package of
Windows out, go to our NetWare workstation and type a:setup. When asked
for a directory, type FAwindows and let
the disks whirL I f that's all it takes to

work for you, send your name into the

Gtaaess BookfoRecords,buy as many lottery tickets as people will allow you to
go into debt for, and start researching

tax havens. If instead of success you

find your mouse pointer nonexistent
or mutti~ en s ional or you find the
hourglass never runs out or you get
"Cannot locate just about anything"
message, quietly and without anger
delete your Wndows directory, print
out the READ.ME files that come with
your Windows diskette, get as many
back issues ofas many magazines as
you can get a hold of that have any reference to Windows and Netware, make
sure your Compuserve account is active
and get busy. The following are some
areas that may cause you to find aes-

thetic qualities to the command line

interface that you never knew existed
and lead you to quote articles that
prove that Scranton, Pa students com-

pleting physics degrees are much more

hkely to have grown up with DOS computers than Macintosh systema There

a re a lot of tips out there to fi n a l e

t he operation o f N e t W ar e a n d
Windows that are very specific and
finicky. What I will outline here are
the essentials of getting NetWare and
Wiadows to cohabit at alL

XNIS NET
DOS doesn't know anything about
NetWare; doesn't want to either. So if

you are running DOS/Windows programs in your workstation, NetWare

has to d o t h e m e d i a t i n g b e c a use

NetWare is DOS-aware; has to be

because offact one above. In each network workstation, a NetWare "shell"
running as a TSR intercepts DOS
r equests and redirects them to t h e

NetWare file server. Windows works

better with some shells than others.
The preferred shell seems to be one
called XMSNETx where the last x

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refers t o t h e D O S v e r sio-e.g.,
XMSNET3 would be expecting that
you are working with, say, DOS 3.3, in
t he workstation. N o t o n l y d o es
Windows prefer the XMSNET shell, it
also prefers the latest revisions. Call
your dealer now.

grail; you' ll need:

l. a 386with 4megof memory
2. DOS 5.0
3. a memory manager such as'386 to
the MAX' from Qualitas or QEMM
f'rom Quarterdeck

Limited Quantity
386sx Laptop

Performance

Map Root
Windows and Windows programs
like to mosey over to the root of the

hard drive, and when placed on a network continue that practice with the
server hard drive.This is not good for
security reasons and so you often have
to create a false root to trick Windows

with the NetWare MAP ROOT option.

Set Temp
Windows likes to write things to a
variety of places on the hard drive. As
with the root directory problem above,
some of these places are not particular-

ly places where you want users to write

things. Using the "set temp" command, you can redirect Windows and
Windows programs to place their files
in appropriate places.

Standard INode
Windows runs in three modes -real,
standard and enhancect Real mode is
pretty barebones, and enhanced can

be tricky to set up, as well as slowing

performance. Standard mode is as the
name suggests and is probably the one
that offers you the best combination of

ease of setup, reliability and performance. (For those who really want to
do everything you possibly can with
Windows, the enhanced mode is your

Considerations:
Local Hard Drive: Windows does a lot

of disk access. Running it from the

local hard drive can in certain circum-

16MHz 386sx CPU

<~ 1MB RAM

stances increase performance only

data flles are kept on the server drive
in this variant.

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40MB Hard Drive
Parallel 8 Serial Port
Modem ExpansionSlot
81 Key Keyboard
W VGA LCD Display
DOS 3.3
Weighs Only 13lbs
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Memory: All you can afFord. 2 meg is a

good minimum.
Insrtallation Methoch Use the network

method as found in the Windows Users

Guide.
B est Book I' ve seen to d at e o n ''
Windows ( w it h
a cha p t e r on
Networking): Sfndrwos 3 I'orosr Tools,by
Bantam Computer Books.
When Nothing Wow: Call the guy in
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When Everything Workrrr Looks real
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Windows 3.0:
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Faxing Under

justification for the move is that the

learning curve under Windows is a lot

Seter. Once a user has a basic understanding of how the Windows interface

Windows:

works it is much easier to master a new

Fax Server Systems with Windows front ends

hy Chem Cohen

The Move To Windows

n the April issue of The Computer
Paper I r e v i ewed L AN FAX
Gateways with DOS front ends.
Since then it is becoming apparent

that Windows is becoming the environment of choice in the corporate PC

world. Even if DesqView is a better
multitasking environment, corpora-

tions are moving more and more to

the Windows environment. The main

application. Under DOS, every application has a different user interface;

knowing one application does not
speed up the learning of the next
application. The second reason is that
under the Windows GUI (Graphical
User Interface), formatting of documents and forms is What You See Is
What You Get, (WYSIWYG ) generating better looking documents and
faxes.

Windows Word Processing

T o test th e f a x c a pability o f
Windows I am trying to write this article using Microsoft Word for Windows.
I have been using Framework for years
but this excellent package has aged
and lacksproper support for printers;
if you want to print under Framework
you have to be happy with basic fonts
and simple formatting. (Ashton-Tate
has just announ ced th e r e l e ase of

Framework IV, which is expected to

offerexpanded font and printer support.)
Word for Window allows forvery
sophisticated formatting: WYSIWYG.
This means that what you see on your

IF Yau D O WI N D O W S
YOU NEED CVWr=oiuz"

screen is also what you will get when

you printor fax the document. So far I
am impressedwith the ease of use and
the excellent tutorial. One problem
that I will have to solve before submitImg this article, however, is that when I
try to print to the HP IaserJet IIP, for
some unknown reason all characters
are converted to Greek characters.

Faxing of the same document on the

other end works fine.

Windows Databases
Another product tested is Borland's

ObjectVision. This is a new product

that combines popular features from
spreadsheets,databases, forms products a n d dr a w i n g pr o g r ams.
ObjectVision lets you create fully functional Windows applications quickly
and is especially good when those
applications have forms as part of
them. In order to test the fax gateway I
designed an ObjectVision invoicing
application so I can Fax neat4ooking
invoices, including logo and signature,
directly to my clients.

Windows Is Not Simple

ith the introduction of sophisticated graphic orientated software such as Windows 3.0
by Microsoft, you need a high quality color monitor to get the maximum benefit from the
graphics. Darius Technology Inc., an innovative advanced technology manufacturer, has a full line
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This testing brings me to say one

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Why Fax From Your

Computer' ?
Before I go into the details of the
Fax process I would like once more to
stress the benefits gained by integrating your fax machine and your computer system. You can gain substantial
improvement in:

Productivity
Productivitysuffers as employees
twiddle their thumbs while waiting for
incoming and outgoing faxes. Return
on investment studies show that on

average you save 10 minutes on every

fax sent,thus a fax gateway can pay for
itself in a very short time.

THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 4 7
s

Reduced Telephone Fees

If you send long distance faxes,
scheduling faxes at times when telephone ratesare discounted isvery easy
with a fax gateway.
If you currently are using more
thantwo 'fax lines with a fax gateway,

you might be able to reduce the number of lines because the utilization of
the line is better.

Faster Client Response

In this day and age you want to
respond fast to your clients. You want
to target the appropriate clients when
you send mail or any other information. The computer s)sstem has all the
information about products and cus-

explaining Windows fonts and Adobe

Type Manager fonts.
One problem that FAXit has is that
sometimes when printing received
faxes to the Laser printer, FAXit bolded them and the output was not very
readable. The same fax when viewed
on the screen, or redirected to a fax
machine looked good.

before you run Windows. It uses only

5.4K bytes of convenfional memory if it
uses expanded memory, and 69K bytes
if it doesn't Once FAXit is installed it
runs pretty well as described above.
One area that can cause problems is
support for difFerent font formats. In
order to get the most out of FAXit you

will have to understand how dlfFerent

fonts work under Windows. In the
FAXit manual, Windows fonts are
explained but not very welL However,
in the July 1991 issue of Tjss Computer
PaPar, Gordon Glaze does a goodj

ob

Product:Lanfax Redirector For Windows

INanufacturer.Alcom Inc. (41 5) 694-7000
System Requirements:Requiresa CAScompatible fax board, like intel Connection CoProcessor
or Intel SatisFAXtion. Workstation features: All
the ones described for FAXit. Each user can select
a personalized Logo for the cover sheet.

Prfce:8 Users: $1,198, 25 Users:$2,401, unlimited: $4,207.

Alcom was the first to release a fax

server and is one of the first to release
a Windo~ a sed fax server.Its package is based on FAXit. Alcom licenses

FAXit from Alien Computing, which it

then modifies to communicate with its

fax~rver software.The interface for

the user looks similar to the FAXit
interface. A2SK TSR is loaded before
Windows. This TSR depends on the
Network you are running. For Novell it
is called WKS IPX . Th is TSR allows
the users to query the fax server for its

tomers already in it-why not use it as

well for sending faxes?

Reduced Postal Fees

If you send a lot of local mail,
switching to fax can translate into substantial savings.

Security
If you have confidential incoming
faxes, the Fax Gateway can be set up so
the faxes will be routed directly to your

station.

Save a Tree

- For outgoing faxes: Avoid printing a

document and then faxing it. For
incoming faxes: View your faxes on
screen before printing.

Installing or u p grading Novell Netware c an b e a

complicated task. By hiring a qualified specialist you can
be assured of a fast and trouble free set-up. When you
want your network to run properly from the start, choose
an expert installer with years of experience. Choose
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Faxing Under WindowsHow does it works

All Wmdows fax servers allow mformation to be p r i n ted from within a

Windows application and rejected,

without the use of any additional transport mechanisms, tothe fax server,
which sends the fax to its destination,
Once you have Windows 8.0 inst'alled
and working well, the process of sending a fax is very simple.
A) Before printing you select the
printing device to be the Fax; this is
accomplished from within the application or from the Printers option under
the Windows control panel,
B) You just print the document.
C) Once the printing process starts,
the printout is converted to faxable
format and a destination form pops up
on your screen.

Please phone or FAX for a system quotation today.

D) At that point you can enter the

Fax desfinationdetails,or choose an
entry from a phone book; if so desired
you can schedule the fax to be sent at a
latter date and time.

E) Now you can forget about the

fax-it will be sent to its destination on
the specified date and time.

Products

Product FAXit
Manufacturer: Alien Computing, phone: (805)
947-1310 Fax: (805) 947-1987
Single user package. This package is bundled
with Intel SatisFAXtion. Its
re sare:Support
for multiple phone books; Specifying multiple
destinations; Cancelling or rescheduling an event;
Viewinga fax on screen, also in inverted format;
Printing to any Windows printer, Savinga fax in
PCX,DCXor TIFF formats; Fonvarding a fax.

For FAXit to run you have to install

the Intel Connection CoProcessor or
the Intel SatisFAXtion card in your PC.
Once the harclware is installed you
have to install the Intel software that
comes with the card as well. This software loads as a TSR on your machine

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The Preferred Network

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phone answering machines

Panasonic KX-F50
Panasonic KX-F90
PaEmonic KX-F110

. Product FACSys
Manufacturer. Optus Sofbrvare Inc. Phone: (906)
271-9568
LAN package for No/all Netware
System Requirements: Requires s CAScompshlde
fax board, like Intel Cannecfion CoPnycessor or
Intel SetlsFAXtion. Workstation features: Pop up
faxing. Simple, automatic routing of incoming
faxes. Personal and system phone directories.
' Broadcast and delayed transmission. Company
lettgrhesdrksgo, ussr signature. Graphics processer for viewing, printing and nyuting documents.
Price> $1,300.

Save hundreds of dollars

in phone line charges!
Iseassonic Elagtenle TWs,
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redirect jobs to the PRINT @ FAX

print queue. It also selects phone numbers Rom a local or public directory.
FACSVS allows the users to view the status of fax transmissions, fax receipts
and the status of the fax server. The

advantage of this approach is that no

memory residentTSRs are needed.
The fax viewing capabilities of
F ACSys are similar t o t h o se o f
A LCO M ' s . O n e n i c e f e a t u r e t h a t

FACSys has is the ability.to route

incoming faxes without DID or human
intervention. This is done using an
Optical Character Recognifion (OCR)
system that looks for a ~
t rou t i ng
code on the fi
rstpage of an incoming
&EL This does require that the incoming fax will have that number typed on
it; handwritten numbers are not recognized. FACSys can also have manual
routing of fisxes for the Ssxes that do
not indude the specified code.
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FACSys is a Novell specific solution.

The FAGS' senrer, a dedicated PC/AT

Fgsnbln'TeEtfna Diaianezy' (Webceer)

with 640K bytes of memory, acta as a

Novell printserver, and it services a
print queue that is created during
installation. The server looks similar to
a Novell 286 file senrer, in that it has a
colon prompt and its commands are
similar. The workstation software consists of two programs: PROUTE.EXE
and FACQEEXE. PROUTE is a substitute for Netware CAPTURE and does

ADVANCED
om a is msriuwouwwue

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current status. The senrer is a dedicated XT or AT with 640K bytes of memory, a 40M~
di s k drive and one fioppy drive,The server is managed by the
Communications Administrator, who
has global privileges to monitor and
delete events, route or delete incoming
faxes and modify the queue.
I found it easy to fax from either
MS Word for Windows or Borland
ObjectVision; both produced very
good quality faxes. One thing to watch
for when using a product based on
FAXit is network traaic. As the document is converted to the .PCX format
at the workstation and then sent to the
fax server, traaic on a busy LAN can
increase substantially.

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Fiber Optic
Illetworks

problems than can plague copper

media, in particular interference &om
o utside sour ces. E l e c t r o m a gn e t i c

I nterference ( E M I ) a n d Ra d i o
Frequency Interference(RFI) have no
effect on Sbre cable, thus they are a
perfectchoice when the network cable
must be routed through a "hostile"
environment,such as a manufacturing
facility with heavy equipment, or in a
cable tray shared with power cables.
Much higher kequencies are possible with fibre over copper media,
which means higher data transfer
rates, and the ability to use the excess
transmission capacity or bandwidth for
other purposes, such as voice, video
etc. The proposed Fibre Distributed
Data In terface ( F D DI ) s t andard
defines a data transmission speed of
100 megabits per second, 10 times that

bll Mike Wol

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opper-based cable is today' s
most popular method of connecting network devices, but a
new horse has entered the starting gate
Sbre optic cable. Tiny strands of
glass or plastic Sbres capable of handling transmission speeds orders of
magnitude higher than their (relatively) big metallic siblings are Snding
acceptance in situations which require
the special advantages which fibre
opttc cable provtdeL

IIom Does It Works

Instead of transmitting a lovPvoltage
electrical signal, Sbre optic transmission works by ~ d ing pulses of light
through a precision engineered opncal
fibre. A solid state laser or Light
Emitting Diode (LED) changes digital
electrical pulses into Sashes of light of
a parlicular &equency (or color) at the
transmitting end of the fibre. To the
light puhre, the Sbre looks like a tunnel
with mhrored walla It travels down the
fibre,curving around corners, to the
receiving end, where a sensitive optical
receptor lranslates the optical Sashes
back to electrical ~
or b i t s of data.
Since computer bits are electrically

of Ethernet.

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distances before asignal repeater or
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cards are very expensive, as is glassbased Sbre. A new type of plastic fibre
and growing market acceptance will
bring prices down over time. The
FDDI standard is still not finalized,
meaning that you must stay with a par-

pulse and vice versa.

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Product: Novell Netware V2.2 gs 386 V3.11.

Network operating system for a server based network using a DOSbased server.
Publisher: Novell, Inc. 122 East 1700 South
Provo, Utah 84606 Phone: (801)429-7000,
(800)4S3-1267
Price: V2.2 (10 Users) MSRP 52895; V3.11 (20
Users) MSRP 54995 (Pricing varies depending csn
number of users)
5ystem Requlrementsi (See your Novell
Authorized Reseller) Rie server. IBM PC AT, PS/2
cxr mmpetibie file server with 80286 or 80386 or
80486 microprocessor (V3.11 requires 80386)
with at least 2.SMB memory. Hard cfisk with IBM
campetibie contralier. Netware suppcsrts most
ISA, MFM, ESDI, and some SCSI controllers.
Netwcsrk board Workstation: IBM PCNT, AT, PS@
or competibte Network board DOS 3.0 or higher

L
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ovell Netware is a network

operating system that p
multiuser access to disk drives
and printers. Netware gives you the
ability to define users and user groups
for your network. It is then possible to
control the files, printers, machines,
and time these users and user groups'
use. You also can control how the files
may be used and you 'can control
access to any application software on
the network. Through value-added
processes from both Novell and thirdparty vendors, many other network
functions are available such as modem
sharing, electronic mail, and wide area
networhng.
We reviewed both Netware V2.2
and Netware 886 V8.11. These versions
are very similar in actual operation.
The main difference is that V2.2
should be used with an 80286 based
file server and V8.11 should bc used
with an 80886 or 80486 based file scrtj
er. Although it is pomible to run V2.2
on a 80886 or 80486 based file server,
there is
no improved performance and
sometimes a 80886 running V2.2 is
slower than a 80286. There are other
differences in the installation and

rovide
s

operation of the two different versions

that should be conidered before purchasing Netware.

Installation

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The installation process is new, and

firster than version 2.15. Although you
do not need a degree in computer science nor do you need to be a ctualified
i nstaller from N o vell to o b tain fu l l
results from the network, some com-

puter knowledge and expertise is needed to do a smooth installation. The key

to installing a good network is the level

of planning before installation and
setup. If an individual does not have
the knowledge ofwhat the network can
do, that person cannot install it effectively. A person who is familiar with
the functions of operating a Novell
network will h ave few p r oblems
installing one.
One enhancement in the installation is that spooled printers are no

longer installed during installation.

They are new installed during the sexver boot process. This eliminates the
need to reinstall Netware when you

add a new printer.

Installing a network is not like
adding a new application. A network is
the foundation of a system. Although
Netware is easy to install and any
novice: can obtain basic file and prxnter
sharing in a matter of minutes, full
functionality takes some degree of
planning.

Ease of Use
Ease of use is an interesting concept
with a network On a network there are

two categories of users: system supervisors and general users. Ease of use
takes on a different meaning for these
two types of users. With a skilled system
supervisor and the added features and
controls of V2.2 and V8.11, the general
user will find that operating most tasks
on a Novell network is easier than
operating that task on a stand-alone

computer. On the other hand, bein'g

the system supervisorfor a network
takes more skill than setting up a
stand-alone computer. There are more

variables in setting up a network that

one has to consider.
The supervisor utilities in Netware
are well laid out and easy to use. The
only exception is the spooled printer
utilities. Printer maintenance utilities
could bc put together more concisely.
Considering the vast control that
Novell givesover a network environment, it is a vexy user-friendly system.
I have found that those who complain about the complexity of Novell
are not experienced enough to appreciate the complctencss of the system.
Also, there are many system supervisors
that are not obtaining full functionality

from their network because their

knowledge of Novell does not cover
the full scope of the program. I find
that most complaints about Novell are
based on anignorance of Novell rather
than any real problem with the system.

Documentation
I have installed every version of
Netware releasedsince version 1.02.
Over the last seven years, I have wit-

nessed the development of Netware.

From version 1.02 to version 2.15,
Netware became largerand the documentation became more complex and
cumbersome. V2.2 and V8.11 are the
first steps in good documentation. The
new documentation is clear and direct.

Although the functionality of Netware

has increased and there aremore features in the new versions, the documentation is clearer and more usefuL
For those people who have been

intimidated by Netware in the past

because of its cumbersome documentation, the new documentation is a wel-

come refief.
Inever saw the reason for
the 14 bound manuals and 12 supplements with version 2.15.

Error Handlini and

Limitations
The potential for system failures

T HE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 5 1
increases with the addition of each new
component By defipition a network is
a group of components working as
one. Netware must efFectively trap each
possible component failure and effectively report on it. Netware must interrupt an application and report the
error directly to the user or report the
error to the. application. In both these
cases Netware is effective. If a file cannot be opened because of a sharing
violation or other reason, Netware displays the correct error over all applications. If a record of a file cannot be

used because of arecord lock violation, Netware correctly informs the

application. software.
A new hmitation exists with Netware
about the number of users. Netware is

now sold in 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 250

user versions. This means that only the
licensed number of users may be
logged on at any given time. It does
not limit th e n u m ber o f r e gistered
users on your network, just the concurrent connections.
One key function in Netware is the
ability to connect machines using dis-

similar operating systems into one network Netware is rapidly moving in this
direction with Macintosh, OS/2, and

VMS. Using a Netware file server,

workstations can use these and other
operating systems.
One should note that Novell is not
shipping NET5.COM with these versions of Netware, NET5.COM is the
workstation s h el l f o r DO S 5.
NET5.COM is only available with the
DOS 5 upgrade and not the standard
v ersion of D O S 5 . Y o u c a n ' t f a u l t
M icrosoft too m uch as N E T 5 . C O M

should be shipped with Novell. If you

need NET5.COM, you can log onto
S UZY and r e t r ieve i t f r o m t h e
"Business Software IN."

V2.2 Versus V$.11

There: are some significant differences between V2.2 and V8.11 that
must be considered. First, of course, is
price. The 20 User VS.ll costs the
same as the 50 User V2.2.So if you
need a lot of connections and you
don't need the features of VS.ll, V2.2
may be the way to go. VS.ll is a true
886 operating system that uses dynamic memory management in RAM and
allows for bigger hard disks. V8.11
provides better security. You can lock
users out of a single file if you need to.

Conclusion
It is very difficult to review the
world's number one network operating

own money than what IBM advertises.

As with any system, it depends on

the size and complexity of your
i nstallation. Network, UN I X ,
mini-computer, mainframe, or
RISC based - in this they' re all the
same. A network that's been properly installed and configured by a
vendor that is providing you with
a solution, not just a list of com-

ponents, will require the same

amount of administration (or
even less) than any other type of

multi s system. I normally budget 1/2 -8/4 person for a 2(station network during the installation and shakedown phasesand

1/4 - 1/2 person on an

ongoing

basis, depending on its complexity. This may change depending

on the stability of your environment (frequent changes in staff
or applications software mean
more administration). If your vendor tells you lc:ss staff time will be
required, then your vendor is
doing the work-and you' re paying for it in annual support and

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FRIES O
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ticular manufacturer to maintain com-

patibility. This is similar to the situation 2 to 8 years ago with 10Base/T

Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP). Once
the FDDI standard is set, more manufacturers will begin shipping compatible products, so mass production and
competition will ultimately cause
prices to drop.

What A Deal
VGA Colour
386sx

Where Can You Use I:ibre?

Fibre based Network Interface
Cards (NICs) are available now with
supportfor current topologies such as
Ethernet, Token Ring and Arcnet. In
this case, you will gain the distance and
interference immunity advantages, but
no 'performance improvement, since
the manufacturer must adhere to the
same transmission speed specifications

as if copper was used.

For network backbones connecting

servers and/or database engines where

very high throughput is required,

not get to be number one by chance

choose a FDDI compliant solution, but

and neither did they simply advertise

themselves to that position. Novell hae
put many years of effort into develop-

be aware that products available today

represent the particular manufactur-

and efficient operating system and they

have been successfuL
Just to be certain, consider what
IBM thinks about Netware. Though
Big Blue tells you and me that OS/2 is
the future, they sure own a lot of stock
in the past (Novell). I think we can
learn more from where IBM invests its

PC

6eorge Slade is a senior partner with iSR

Software Review Corporation, a company specializing in independent testing, evaluation and
review of OOSkased products. For further information phone (604)538-0517.

system and come to any conclusion

except that it is very good. Novell did

ing a safe, reliable, secure, functional

PC COMPUTERS LTD.
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er's interpretation of the FDDI stan-

dard. Do not expect compatibility with

productsfrom a different manufacturer, and do not be surprised if you must
upgrade in the future to be fully compliant with the final FDDI standard.
Mike Wolfe is the Vice-President of Consulting
Services with First Online Support Services inc., a
Vancouver company specializing in installation,
support, and tra>ning for computer networks.

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Although normafly considered a

"fault tolerant" feature, the ability to
"mirror" or "shadow" disk subsystems

is actuallya form of backup. Systems

which employ these techniques are
protected f'rom absolute hardware failu res, such as a head crash, but n o t

from loss of data due to operator

one or many servers,perhaps a mini or
error, since an accidentally deleted or
maisiframe lurking in the background,
corrupted file remains that way.
righb Wrongi
You are loohng at the lifeblood of
your organization! Not the machines, Local Backup
Copying the data elsewhere on the
pri4sters, or other physical componetwork
is another alternative. In this
nents, but the information flowing
,
scenario,
data to be backed up is
through the network, accessible to stafF
copied to another server or a local
so they can process orders, design
hard disk This is fast and most conveproducts, manage inventory, or whatevnient at times when a long process,
er it is that they do in order to make
such as month end, is about to be startthe company function, profitably.
ed, and the application asks "Have you
If the parts break or are destroyed,
backed upyour data? Of course, we all
repair or replace them. Simple. Lose
answer "Yes" without really doing an
the data, you are out of business.
external backup, since we are in a
Equally simple, but much more drahurry, and anyway, nothing has gone
matic.
wrong with the month end process for
months, so why bother? Murphy's law
What is a Backups
will get you, that's why. Also, you now
Essentially, backing up data is like
have a copy on another system; should
making a photocopy of it
make a
the primary system fail, you may be
copy of the data, generally to some
able
to continue, perhaps less efficientform ofremovable media such as tape,
ly,
using
the backup machine.
then continue mahng changes to the
original. If the original is lost or damExternal Backup
aged, the backup copy can be used to
Copying your data to external,
RESTORE the original back to the
removable
media is by far the most
point at which the backup was made.
common,
and
best, backup protection.
Any changes to the original since the
Tape
is
the
most
popular media, but
backup are lost
optical disks are up and coming, particularly for archival storage, where the
Why Backups
media
will not be re-used, and must
A backup is the primary protection
have a long shelf life. Floppies, due to
against loss or damage to data. Data
their limited capacity, are not very useloss occurs for two reasons equipI,
u nless the volume of data is quite
ment failureand human error. Human
small.
error accountsfor approximately 75%
The advantage ofan external backof problems, most often through acciup
is that the backup copy can be physdental erasure offiles, or improper
ically removed from the system, and
procedures which result in corruption
the premises, providing greater securior inadvertent purging of data.
tyfrom damage.
Outright hardware failures are rare,
but in many cases destruction of the
hardware or data corruption may be
caused by external events, such as

Motherboards

Online Backup

power loss or damage by fire or leaking

water. If you consider how much efFort
it will take to re-enter all the data
stored on the network, backing up

How Bigs

Selecting an appropriate media size

and rotation cycle can provide months
of protection with little efFort and cost

Ideally, the backup process should run

to completion without operator inter-

makes a great deal of sense.

vention. This means that a single tape

c artridge must be large en ough t o

Who is Responsible?

store all live data. This includes operating system and programs (with the
configuration information), system
data, and any datafrom local hard
disks (if required ensure that the
backup system supports this feature if
it is a requirement).
Most backup systems support the
ability to schedule the backup automatically long a&er normal business hours,
say at midnight. Thus the operator simply loads a tape cartridge, and initiates
the backup before going home, it is
done bythe next morning.
Ifyour hve" data exceeds your tape
cartridge capacity, either purchase a
larger tape backup, or reduce the
amount ofdata you backup each time,

Personal computers brought free-

dom to the desktop, allowing users to

manage their own systems, and be
responsible for backups. Most, if told,
would perform backups regularly at
first, mostly through fear, but in time,
overwonfidence sets in, with a mindset
like "tomorrow I' ll back this up, I don' t
have timetoday."One big advantage of
networks of personal computers is that
backup is done centrally, by the
Network Administrator. In addition,
local disks can be backed up by the
network backup system. In any event, it
is your responsibility to ensure that the
information in your computer network
is properlyand adequately backed up.
Let's take a look at various ways of
doing thia

so that the process remains unattend-

ecL For instance, you can backup only

the truly active data each night, and

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periodically backup enly the system
and pmgaua 6les during normal operatiag hours, say over lunch.
A nother alternative would be t o

purchase an additional, identical tape

unit and do partial backups to both.
This also means that the backup unit is

duplicated at your facility, providing

addilioaaf protection ia the event that

a tape chive fails aad requires repair

(also see the discussion an "System
Sackups" below). A word of caution:
de nat be tempted by the concept of
incremental or differential backups as
a method efreducing backup data volumes these techniques are practical
for only the most basic oKce automation network

How Often' ?
Sachng up daily, particularly when
done unattended is best. A longer
interval requires that hardware, soft-

ware, and sla6' not fail not a good

bet.

A backup must be scheduled such

that all users are off the system since
files cannot chaage during the process.
Open and/or locked 6les cause differeat actions, depending en the backup
software. Some will simply skip them
entirely, some will pause and retry a
few times before skipping, or retry
aker fiaishing the rest of the backup.
If a portion of a file is locked, the
backup software may simply write zems
to the locked portion(s) on tape, and
correctly copy the rest of the file, possibly retrying the read on the locked
portions later. If a portion of a file is
locked and skipped, the backedwp file
is useless, since the tape version is not
an accurate copy of the live data.

Media Rotation
A backup is useful only if last data
can be restered &am it. Often, it takes
a while ta realize that data is missing or

cerrupt, so the backup pmcess must

accommodate this time lag. Sacking
up every day to the same tape only
allows one day to netice a pmbleia,
before the backup tape is overwritten
with current, bad data. Alternating two
tapes gives two days, and so on. Since
the incremen tal cost ef a d d i t i o n al

media is negligible, relative to the

value of the data, use sufficient tapes ta
give a reahshc rotational schedule.
Let's say yau want te back up five

days per week. With ten tapes, designate four tobe used weekly en Monday
through Thursday, an additional four

an each affour consecutive Fridays,

and the last two as monthly. This gives
m uch broader coverage (up ta 5
manths) than simply rotating the ten

tapes. Add additional tapes to the

daily, weekly, or monthly cycles for
greater coverage.
Make sure that a lag is maintained

of when each tape was used, and keep

some ef the tapes, such as the weekly
and monthly, offsite, perhaps in a bank
vault, or simply at the Administrators
home.

Server- or Workstationbased Iackupl

Sackup devicesmay be insured in
either the server or a w o r kstation.

Server installations may be trickier,

since the backup software must run
using the server'soperating system,
and the interface card, if required,
must not conflict with ether cards in
the server such as disk controllers or

Network Interface card(s). Physical

accessto the server isrequired for each
backup, which may be inconvenient,
and of course the serve:r must be up in
order to restore. Aveid backup systems

which require the network server to be

shut down and re-booted to perform
the backup.
The best place is a high-performance workstation on th e n e twerk,

cabled with the fastest cemmuaication

path to the server. This workstation
could also have a local hard disk ef suf-

ficieat size to allow limited use for critical functions in the event of a network
failure.
Regardless ofthe backup placemeat, make sure that an individual file
may be restored, which means doing a
Gle-by-filebackup. Image backups,
where the e n t ir e d isk i s simply
"dumped" to tape (available only an
server4ased units), may be fast, but
most require a restore of the entire
disk to retrieve a single file.

Speed
Time to backup is mostly governed

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of the backup PC. This may not be critical if backups are always done afterheurs. When 24-hour access is desired,
or backups are (even occasionally)
dane during working hours, speed
becames an issue since staffcannot

work while the backup is in pregress.

So put the tape on a fast system, connected via the fastest topology (if there
is a choice). Backup units which perform data compression at the controller level will back up mere quickly,
Verifying a backup doubles the
time. Since a verify basically checks the
tape hardware, don't verify every time
if speed is an issue. Once per week is
an adequate check, since most failures
will actually prevent the backup f'rem
completing, a fact which will be quickly
noticed by the Network Administrator.

Testing
Check each morning to ensure that
the backup completed successfully.
Print or display the "skiplist" file (if the
backup prepares one) to ensure that
no essential data files were missed.
Periodically, check that the backup
is in fact working, and that data is
restorable. Many tape drives have separate read and write heads and circuitry,
so just because a tape writes okay,
dan't assume it will read okay. There
have been unfortunate instances where

a user has carefully backed up and verified their data, only to find that the
tapes were unreadable when a restere
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For several weeks, I had a p
copy ofOS/2 version 2.0. Apparently,
there are about 25,000 copies of this

posed to be the miracle operating system that would rehabilitate power-hun-

running in-house at IBM, so there is no

shortage of beta<estcrs. The version I

gry DOSerholics.

had (at the time of writing) was so

Well, it didn' t-strike one. It was a

bear to develop for, the print manager

never quite worked, it gobbled memory, it was expensive and it was slow.

With a starthng degree of naivety, IBM

wondered why the world wasn't rushing to its doorstep. The most recent
(and highly vaunted) version, 1.8,
fixed most of the bugs, but I still
wouldn't want to touch it- strike 2.
H owever, it seems that IB M a n d

Microsoft had a bit of a spat, recently.

In character, Microsoft took its ball
and went home, leaving IBM holding
the basket. It seemed that the oneonone OS/2 development game wasover.
It was up to IBM. After all, Microsoft
was far too busy peddling a DOS shell
it likes to call a graphical user interface

(GUI).

That left IBM in control of OS/2

development. To their credit, they
tossml out most of the code and started

&om scratch. For the sake of brevity,

they have produced a really impressive
piece ofsoftware.

n ew, i t

refix:

d i d n ' t r un Pr e s e n t a t i o n

Manager's new Workplace Shellversion 2.0, yet. Aside &om that, it was a
fully functional operating system with
all the bcta+ugs intact. With that in
mind, it wouldn't be fair to report any
bugs or problems because they will
probably be fixed by release time.
Having said that, I wasn't able to
make it break, once. The first thing I
tried was multitasking. I was able to
run Lotus 1-2-8, Microsoft Flight
Simulator, GEOWorks and 688 Attack
Sub (each, a DOS program) all at the
same time, I could easily multi-task
within GEOWorks itself, as welL Since
OS/2 does preemptive multi-tasking
(unlike MS DOS 5.0's task+witching),
all the software was running simultaneously. While recalculating a spreadsheet, I crash@ended the airplane, sunk
a Libyan tanker and typed nates for
this article in GEO Write. Later, I loaded up Procomm and roamed through
a few BBS's. You might say it was
enough to get my attention.

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To begin with, OS/2 offers computer users quite a bit of functionality. To
quote the ad copy, "It runs DOS better

than D0 8 , W i n dows better than

Windows and 08/2 better than OS/2."
Much to my surprise, it really does.
Plus, they have eliminated the need for
editing CONFIG.SYS.
One of the first things I noticed
about OS/2 amounts to a genuine first

and toys with the system! IB M h as a

r eputatio n f o r s e l l i n g d r a b a n d
un&iendly system software; this is the
first illustration of the much-talked-

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about it. What I can say is that the new
Presentation Manager (PM) will give
you drag-and~op functionality just
like the Mac or the Amiga.
For example, a compound document (i.e., one that rehes upon a word
processorfor form and a spreadsheet
for data) can be iconized. The icon
can then be dragged over to the print
manager, dropped and the document
will be printed. The icons on the
screen will be true objects as opposed
to mn'ely a picture representing a 6lename. This makes PM a true GUI, not
just a shell.
PM will h ave a t r u e d e sktop
metaphor and a Rhmensional appearance, aa welL Adobe Type Manager will
be an integral part of the system
(whether True Type will be used in the
future is still unknown). I can foresee
that later versions of IBM OS/2 will
probably migrate to OSF's Motif. Yet,
earlier agreements with Apple may see
a combined development of a new
desktop operating system on a new
CPU.
OS/2's High Performance File
System really hustles. It's at least %%

faster than DOS's 6le system, and that

is just a rough estimate using a stopwatch. When contrasted with a multi-

tasking job using Windows and MSDOS, OS/2 reallycomes out ahead.
For any database application or multimedia use, 0$/2 will be a real champ.
Integral to 08/2 is the system chpboard. This allows you to cuaand-paste
between separate applications, regardless if they are specific to OS/2, DOS
or Windows. Most people will 6nd this
a handy feature.
Another convenience feature in

08/2 really appealed to me. No matter

what I was doing in a program or what
software I was using, the opeiating system remembered where I was when
the power was shut off. I found this
useful because IusuaHy had several
applications and windows open at
once. Having the computer reset everything for me was very convenient.
Since 08/2 is an operating system
that uses pre-emptive multitasking,

facilitates inter-process communications,and can run several different

operating systems, each application is
kept isolatedfrom other processes.
Windows 3.0 is notorious for one
crashed program affecting all other
applications. If an application crashes
under 08/2, no matter if it is a DOS
app', a Windows app', oran OS/2
app', system integrity isn't violated and
OS/2 lets you shut down the problem
program without any consequences to
other software.Just shut down the misbehaving process and it's business as
usuaL

MS-DOS Compatibility
issues
Like it or not, it's very much a DOS
world out there. The sad fact is that
corporate North America runs on
Intel. Since there are few shrinkwrapped 08/2 programs when compared to DOS, most people will want to
run DOS software.
A friend of mine noted that OS/2's
claim to fame must be its ability to run
other operating systems and graphical
shells. As a matter of fact, 08/2 is so
DOS compatible, there are no issues,
at all.

Any time you need one, you can

open a DOS 5.Q window (5.0 comes
standard with 08/2). You can run multiple DOS 5.0 windows, if you must.
You can even run W i n dows 8.0 in a
window.
Furthermore, you can take any MS-

Windows S.Q application right out of

the box and run it in a DOS window.
If that still isn't enough, you can
boot MS-DOS version8.2+,4.01 or 5.0
in a separatewindow if your software
application requires a specific version
of DOS.
That certainly satisfies my criteria
for MS-DOS compatibilityl

Leek At the Numbers

In the realm of DOS compatibility,
08/ 2 performs well. In a window,
OS/2 gives 627 KB of available memory per application; that's about the
same amount as DOS 5.0. However, if
you add things like a mouse driver,
E MS, a d i s k c a ch e a n d m o r e
buffers/files, available memory will
shrink to about 580 KB with DOS 5.0.
OS/2 givesyou 620 KB of memory for

T HE COMPUTER
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e very DOS app you need to run ,
regardless ofhow many drivers and
devices you load.
OS/2 gives a maximum of 48 MB
per app, which compares well to DOS's
16 MB limit.
I BM representatives state OS/2 i s
fasterthan DOS 5.0, and can even run
DOS 5.0 software faster than DOS 5.0
can.

And the price?Projected suggested

list price for OS/2 version 2.0 will be
less than $240. I predict that street
price will be in the neighborhood of
$200 at introduction.
There will also be a competitive
upgrade program for PC-DOS users:
any version of PC-DOS plus $127 gives
you OS/2 1.8,and the upgrade to 2.0
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After all is said and done, there
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many also apply to the Windows version for the PC.
As I stated in my earlier review, the
"hller" graphing feature is undoubtedly its graphical what-if analysis. The

function is as simple as clicking on a

data point in a bar graph while holding down the Command or Control
key. (To set colors and/or patterns,
doubl~lick ) As seen at the bottom
right of Figure 1, the middle point in
the bar turns black You can now drag
this data point, automatically updating
the data in your worksheet and any
and all graphs of the data, 8-D charts,
or pictographs as shown here.

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By doubl~ c k ing on a bar, you will
be presented with a dialog box with
options to stack or stretch the images.

(The stack option is shown in this

example.)
In Figure 2, below, you' ll see one of
many 8-D graph options present in
Excel 8.0. Always a crowdgleaser, these
images have neverbeen easier to create. As with other graph types, just
select a range of data in your spread-

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pie chart shown below, you can just
dick and drag the "slices" to separate
them. To rotate the 8-D image, just
choose 8-D Views from the menu, and
dick on the perspective arrows. How
long can it be until animated charts

and flying pies invade our spreadsheets?

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charts as PICI' images to an animation
program like addMOTION, Animation
Works or MacroMind Director. The
objectmriented PICTs can also be pasted into virtually any other presentation, graphics or publishing program.
You can dynamicallyexchange data
between programs; for example, after
pasting an Excel chart into PowerPoint
(etc.), you can edit the chart simply by
doublewlicking on the object. Excel
starts, and you can edit the object
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As seen in the previous illustratian,
Excel 3.0 fer the Mac doesn't get along
tee well with Adobe Type Manager.

crashed upon launch. It seems that the

Note the cheppedmff letter "W."

would always have a math coprocessor.

Both the " Preserve C h a r a c t er

Shapes" and "Line Spacing" optiens

As LC and Hsi owners discovered, versions earlier than 3.0 got very upset
when these machines did not.

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produced this on-screen result bu t

worked properly (Figure 2b) with

TrueType. (Both versions printed correctly.) TrueType support is built into
System 7.0, and is available from

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s ources such as C o m p u S erve a n d

GEnie as an INIT for users of System

6.05 or 6.07. I didn't have the opportunity to test the PC version's compatibil.ty with ATM for Windows.

Although I cauld not repeat it, I

once managed to createan "endless
loop" error with one of the supplied

(included with Excel 3.0) was first run.

There appeared ta be no way toquit

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WINDOW

t he macro. T h e C o m m a n d - p e r i o d
method described in the manual did

not work in this case, nor did closing

the macro's window or pressing the
"Q," key asindicated by the macro.

A CHART IN ASVINDOW

Fortunately, there is a way to escape

from an endless loop such as this, or

virtually
any other Mac program where

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the mouse pointer is still active, but the

program appears to be "locked up."

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Just press the -"Programmer's switch"

Figure 2b. When usingTrueTypn, the text displays

correctly. Note the substantial differences
between Type 1 and TruaType "Times Bold, by
comparing the two figures.

Altheugh Excel 8.0 for the Mac has

a nifty Windows 3.0-inspired 8-D
Toolbar when running on a coler Mac
under System 7.0, users of earlier

System versions needn't laok plain. By

holding down the <Shift>, 3 and D keys
immediately upon launching the program on a Mac with a color monitor,
System 6.0x users, tao, can have "puay
icons." By the way, once you' ve bent
your fingers into this position ance,

gram should exit cleanly to the Findei;

Excel 3.0 users running System 7.0

may natice a bug which causes Excel te
default te the folder containing the
application. Fortunately, a file called
EXCEL 2.0 STARTUPFIX.CPT is available en GEnie (and elsewhere). This

useful in most circumstances, a similar

feature in Excel 2,2 proved to be a lifesaver for Mac LC and IIsi awners, who
found that that version of the program

ment openecL It also adds a Set Default

F older item t o t h e O p t i o n s m e n u .
Look for file number 20850 in the Mac

enjoyed by Windows 8 and Microsoft

Word users. For example, to change
from Color/Grayscale tothe faster
Black and 'White setting, just press
Command and the first letter of the

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Because ef the strong similarities

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Windows a breeze, and vie~erne.

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AUG '91

WordPerfect 2.0

Product: Wordperfect 2.0'i

Publisher. WordPerfect Corporation
Price: 05$495
Requirements: Macintosh Plus or greater, hard disk

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A word processor worth switching to..

g rams such as Nisus and Full W r i t e

Professional have made little difference in Microsoft Word's kingpin

.or from?

hyGrace Bennctt
ordPerfect2.01 (WP2) for the
Macintosh is a significant
improvement overthe compan y's first try a t p e n etrating t h e
Microsoft Werc@laminated Macintosh
word processing market. The Srst time
around, critics slighted the company
for anon-Mac4ke interface, and paar
performance. Now, with a completely
redesigned interface and newly

whelming
d o m i n atio n e f the
Macintosh ward processing market.
Other feature-packed highend pro-

stature, so it seems unlikely that WP2

enh a n ced f eature set, how does

WordPerfectstack up?
O K, hands up, of
all
you that have
readreviewsthatonlytellyouthegood
news? I,could summarize WP2 by saying: "Impressive page layout capabilit i e s (complete with integrated drawing
teals), a spelling checker, thesaurus
a n d e x t ensive import and export
options may persuade many users in

mixed PC-and-Mac environments to

standardize an WordPerfect.

Because WordPerfect is the tasselling PC word processor, the Mac versien's ability to exchange files with its
PC cousin is likely to weigh heavily on
the purchase decisions ofbusinesses
which already use the PC version. But
it is doubtful whether any programno matter hew good could significantly impact upon Microsoft's over-

will seize the hearts and imaginations

of the Mac majority. Nevertheless,
WerdPerfect2.01 isa far more capable
program than Microsoft Word 4.0, and
deserves a close look"
And it would all be true. But there

would be a few things that you should

lmow. Things that, surprisingly, I have
yet te see in other reviews of this product (and I' ve read severall). But, Srst,
the good news....
It is easy to make a convincing case
that WordPerfect is vastly superior to
Word in features alone (it is), but at
least as important is how the program
feela Happily, WP2 is a winner in this
area, with sensible command-key shartcuts (fer example, Command-A does a
Select All, unlike Ward's ridiculous
CommancMption-M equivalent).
Places that Word slips up are wellcovered by WP2, such as its deft hand ling e f d a t e i n s e rtion. W h i l e
Microseft has never tuned in to the
fact that many users may want to insert

the date in the form month, day, year,

(i.e.,June 3rd, 1991), WordPerfect can
insert the date in this form as either
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I also found useful the magniScation feature that allows you te zoom in
and out of the document (to any percentage) while editing the text, margms, graphics or other attributeL

The graphics editer, while probably

extraneous to many users that already

have a faveritegraphics program, is

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allows the creation of objectmriented

art with such features as bezier curves,
smoothed polygons, various fills and
colors, rotated and stretched text, even

a "stepend-repeat replicate function.

Graphics can be pasted into text,
g rouped ( t ake n o te , A l dusl) o r
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Connnecdpom page 60
secretary or temporary worker fiuniliar
with WordPerfect for the PC (and who
isn'tt ) should be able to sit down at a
Mac and know how to getaround the
Pr Ia
Alas, this is most definitely not the
case. UnlikeWordPerfect versions for
the Amiga and Atari, which share commands and function key compatibility
with the IBM version, the Mac release
is completely different. Although alternativecommand keys can be defined
by the user, it would seem prudent for
WP Corp toinclude a keyboard layout

that emulated the PC-standard commands at least as a "selling feature."

I sympathize with WP Corp's dilemma. In iis last incarnation, WordPerfect
for the Mac was critisized as "un-Maclike." Now, with the Mac4keness quotient beefed up, here I am complaining that it's un-PGhkel
Luckily, the Mac version's interface
is very good; much better, in fact than
the PC's, although both use apparently

arbitrary and different function

keys for common operationL And, if
you absolutely must have full keysiroke
compatibility with the PC version, page

200 ofthe reference manual supplies

d etails on ho w i t c a n b e d o n e .
Nevertheless, I consider it a major
blunder that WP Corp didn't think to
include an optional keyboard layout
for users familiar with PC-standard
commands.

easy. Now, with bound softcover manuals, the company had better not have
any typos to fix or changes to makeI
Fortunately, the books lay open reasonably well. The package includes five
perfect-bound v olumes: G e tting

Documentation
anci Support

toll~e support, is WP Corp's forte.

WordPerfect has probably got the
best tech support i n t h e w o r l d.,
Reportedly, the company's telephone
system can handle over1300 simultaneous calls. Interestingly, when I called
WordPerfectCorp's tech support line,
the "on-hold" disk jockey said that PC
callers could expect a 80 second wait,
while Mac users would wait V~d~-half
minutes for an available technicianl Of
course,because the'calland tech support areboth &ee &om Canada or the
U.S., who can complain? When I did
get through, I was treated politely and
efficiently, although the technician
acknowledged that the 2.01 release did
have some problems.

This release marks the first time WP

Corp has used s~alled perfect binding for iis manuals. In the past, Mng
binders made updates and changes

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add to the program's appeal. Their

slickness is hampered somewhat by the
fact that some of them cause glitches
in the program. For example, the
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did not display correctly in a document
that had previously invoked the Drop
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Cutting a paragraph of text to the clipboard, opening a new document and

invoking the Pull Quotes macro hung

the program on one occasion. At
times, the "arrow" pointer failed to
change to an insertion point when
dicking in the program's text window.
At other times, screen re&esh problems would cause hnes of text would be
missing or displayed twice after deleting or inserting a section of text. Grrrl I
A more serious Saw occurs when ~
the program's Drop Caps macro is
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the text and left margin are both
pushed over, but it appears that the
program's internal trachng of the current position of the insertion point is
sometimes set incorrectly. Highlighting or deleting characters produces unexpected, incorrectresults
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64 THE t.oMPlf%R PAPER AUG '91

AccPac Plus

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A ccpac Plus is a mid- to high~ g e ,
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ether system manager, this is a nice
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ing system manager which adds some
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lier versions, and found all my concerns were addressedin the appropriate manner.

Support is a very important issue

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"mission critical" to the cash ffow of
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fer your accounting is that you need
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af support. Pa~ - you-ga and annual

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experience, you can never get through
an the phone. You will have better luck
using tile paid support line.

Reports And
Documentation
The documentation is complete
and easy to read. There are sufficient

help guides to allow an experienced

user to obtain the desired results &om

the package without reading the entire

manual. The packaging is in line with
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Most standard accounting reports

are available. One very exciting feature

about AccPac Plus is the ability to purchase third-party add-on products.
One of these products is called Quick
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writer. If AccPac Plus ctoes nat give yeu
the report you want, you can most likely achieve it with Quick Reports.

Error Handling 8
Limitations
I wns not able to crash this package
and I feel the error handling is cam-

over the Computer Associates idea of a

plete. Each time an incorrect entry is

system manager
In appearance this'new versien is
the same as version 5.0. This particular
menuing process is quite pleasing to
the eye and gives yau a quick visual picture of where you are in the program
at anygiven menu. Once you are at a
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the menu iree. This ia not a graphical
user interface but when it cames te
accounting, it may not be as crucial.
When using the windowing system
manager there isa fi
nder key and a
smart finder. These function to make
data entry quite easy when you forget

made, the package tiaps it and returns

an error message.
AccPac Plus does have a history of

things, such as an account number.

I have used AccPac Plus since version 4.0 and find the improvements in
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are &ustrated with a few miner fail-

c orrupt d a t a bases. I d o n o t t h i n k

AccPac Plus corrupts databases any

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database program. However, most

ether programs providesoftware rou

tinea remaking indexes, the most commen problem, The system manager
will identif'y the problems with AccPac
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Depending on the complexity of
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al l .

Personally, after five years of using

AccPac Plus, I have never had a corrupted database (knack on wood).
And those who have had the problem
usuamy need the services of a database

THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 65

Wordstar

Laptop
CollectIon
A- Pick-and-Mix Surprise
hy GrthalynnLabentc4'rnith
product Wcrdstar Lsptcp Collection
pubnshen Wordstar Intematicnsl Inc.
Wordstar has bundled their wor~rocesscr along
with other software packages for laptop snd
notebook computers. The package includes:
Wordstar (word-processing program), LspUnk (for
linking laptops to deskstops), On-Time (a calender), TelMerge (e modem progrsm), snd MsilUst
gist mansgerleddressbook).

' e I explored the Wordstar

Laptop Collection package I
had a feeling like that I experienced as a child when I would open
up a grab bag of penny candy. Like
mixed-up candy, this bundle of software contained some pieces that I
enjoyed and some that I wouldn't have
chosen for myself but were pleasant all
the same.

All of the sofbsare runs very well on

a desktop computer, but to be authentic, for review purposes, the software
was installed on a laptop computer.
The installation of these programs was
quick and painless, as the companion
programs to Wordstar were only one
diskeach and straightforward.

Wordstar
The word processor includes all of
the standard featureL thesaurus, spellchecker, multiple text windows, page
layout options and macros. However,
the documentation was not equal in
q uality to th e d o c u m e n t ation t h a t

comes with competing word~ocessing

packages,as it was lacking a comprehensive guide to using the program.
The alphabetizedreference menu and
the pocket reference book would not
be informative enough for anovice
user.

A comparable program to Wordstar

w ould be M i c r o soft W o r k s, wh i c h
includes a spreadsheet and chartsnaker
t hat Wordstar doesn' t. N e i t her t h e

Wordstar drawing program nor the

outliner program was included in the
total package and would have to be
added on.

Laplink

cable that links the laptop to a desktop, and this makes the package a little
frustrating for those who expected an
all~elusive deal. Wordstar Inc. includ-

ed an orderform for the $40 cable but

really should have thrown it in.

On-Time
This was my favorite program in the
bundle. This is an easy-to-use daytimer
that toggles quickly between other
applications. For instance, you could
be using Wordstar and then hit the hot
key and get back to your calendar.
A lso, you could b e w o r king o n
Words'. and an alarm will ring and a
message flashes on the screen reminding you of your next appointment.
The flexibility of this program allows
you to set the frequency of the scheduled event, for instance, daily, monthly, yearly, so you don't have to write in
a Monday morning meeting every
Friday, you just enter it once and the
alarm will remind you.

Telmerle
I could not test this program, but it
seems to be a typical communications
program except that i t's limited to

Xmodem 61e transfer protocol. This

thoughtful addition to the package
would be very appreciated by those
who send data through the phones to a
host computer.

I@ail list
This is a miniMatabase to manage
mail lists for printing on envelopes,
merging addresses into form letters
and printing labels. I banned labels
from my onice since the great daby-

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Will that be to Io7

The Wordstar Laptop Collection is
a good attempt by Wordstar Inc. to
pick-and-mix the software needs of a
laptop user, and it is a hard job to
g uess and meet t h ose needs. T h e

package would be a better value if the

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The word processor section displays
a ruler at th e b ottom of th e screen,
complete with a slightly distracting cur-

sor position indicator that tracks the

fuH~ e e n

e d i t or's e very h o r izontal

move. Thankfully, this ghost cursor

may be turned oK in a global settings
dialog that also includes such niceties
as default output file format ( the
Export text without linefeeds option is
ideal for sending files to a Macintosh),
choice of re tabs (as opposed to
space characters), and numerous other
useful or convenient options. In all
areas of the program, help is as close as
the Fl key.
As in other sections of the program,
options line the bottom of the screen,

and when selected, pop up in hierchirace, itadds a bevy of other

cal dialog boxeL A spelling checker
enticements to coax the dollars out
and thesaurus are available, plus inof the pockets ofconsumers. In
line graphs, line and box drawing,
a ddition to its duties as a f a t a l e
word statistics, and printing options
database,+&A also aspires to being a
that include custom font assignments
report generator, word processor, mailand over 400 printer choices (induding list utility, with a natural language ing an "Output to PostScript" option).
query interface (the artificial intelliThe program can produce form letgence equivalent of a research assis- ters, maiTing labels, envelopes and
tant) thrown in for good measure.
reports.
Version 4 sports a character~
If you want to reopen a file, a list of
user interf'ace. Mouse support is also
recently opened titles is maintained.
provided if a mouse driver is present.
Import and export options are extenA line of on i o n p r o mpts along sive, with support for virtually all poputhe bottom of the screen show the varilar PC word processor and database
ous options available in each of the diffile formats. Q8cA even supports inteferent modules.
grated fax transmisson abilities for
users with Intel fax boards.
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Database
problems with the program (an allcooQ8cA is multiuser, with automatic
rare experience, I' ve found) and prorecord locking, password protection
' and database security features. (A netgram options are sensibly laid out and
operate much as one would hope. My
work pack is available to allow three
only complaint is the method in which
more users to share a copy of Q8cA on
command options are chosen Rom ona network server.) The program supscreen lists. Like many programs, the
ports most popular network conflgura6rst letter of t h e w ord a ctivates the
tions.
s election
of
its
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Worse,
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consistent fashion. GET and QUIT, for
up a database is extremely simple.
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Fields may be configured to hold
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several dMerent types of data, includcomplaint, but I would prefer it if both
ing centered or justified text, yes/no,
RETURN and another pressof the letkeywords, phone numbers, money or
ter key itself selected the option. The
numerical data, Once defined, data
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advanced Bnolean searches.
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intriguing addition to the standard
Q8cA creates are quite large. A test
search facilities. After you' ve trained it
database with a mere three entries proto understand the format of your
duced database and index 6les that
database, it lets you ask questions or
totalled almost 95K
build phrases using English sentences.
The context~nsitive help makes it
Layouts may be easily customized or
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quite possible to at least superficially
learn and use the program without
importing and exporting data, backing
ever opening the manual. Symantec
up and restoring databases, and a LinktcxSQL (structured query language) provides unlimited technical support,
and oKers a @May money-back guaroption are available.
antee on the program, to boot.
Drawing tools are available to add
lines to your layout, and macros may
be defined to automate repetitive taskL
Conclusion
Another nice touch is the abiTity to
Clearly, Q8cA has enough features
attach detailed y&character descripto please database users that favor vertions to filenames, so you don't haveto
satihty over simphcity, but unlike relarely on the eight character names
tional DSMs, Q&A provides its options
imposed by DOS' limitations.
without sacrificing ~
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 67

Quicken

for Macintosh
by Joe N%ukr

Help at Tax Time

Quicken also has the capacity to
organize and format data in categories
for export to MacIn Tax, a U.S. income
tax preparation software package,

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unfortunately of little use to Canadian

users, as according to the examples

given in the manual, MaclnTax apparently is dedicated to the U.S. tax system (a call to Intuit technical support

; E."-".'j~a.

f ailed t o c o n f ir m a n y su p p or t f o r
Canadia n
t a x pr e pa r a t i o n vi a
MacInTax). Still, the sort, report and

export abilities of Quicken can save

considerable time and manual calcula-

Product Quicken, Macintosh Version 1.5

Publisher: Intuit, 66 Willow Place, Menlo Park
CA 94025 (415) 322-2800
System Requirements: System 3.2 or later,
Finder 53 or later, Macs with at least 512K RAM
PrlcL' $59.95US

or those who have yet to be

exposed to this incredibly popular software item, a brief definition: Quicken is primarily an electronic cheque register-based personal
finance package with cheque printing
capabilities At least that is how it idart-

ed out eight years ago for the Apple

and IBM DOS platforms (the IBM vers ion is p resently at v ersion 4 ) .
According the theJuly Nlac&orkfmagazinesurvey,Quicken for Macintosh has
been one of the top 10 best-selling
business software products for the past
18 months to March 1991.

For More Than the Home

This Macintosh version, last updated in December 1989, has added features which extend the program's usefulness firmly into the realm of small

business.Quicken is not an accounting

program perse,nor is it a database or
spreadsheet, yet due to its uniquely
fiexible design it has aspects of these
types of financial tools. This is accomplished basically by the ability to collate, sort and generate a wide variety of
reports based on various categories
created by the user.
By way of personal example, the
writer usesQuicken as a means of easily and manageably keeping track of
accounts payable and accounts receivable in a service business. By setting a

date range, specifying cheques,

deposits or withdrawals, and matching
any one of these with a given category
(the categories are completely configurable by the user), the program neatly generates the desired rc:port.
Budgeting is a breeze with Quicken,
e.g.,tracking expenditures, managing
recurring payments,even comparing
actualversus projected expenditures.
Many of the reports generated by
Quicken can become the basisfor
sophisticated bookkeeping by your
accountant, or can be exported in

SYLK format to more powerful programs like Excel, or in text format for

use in a word processor, for preparation of a financial siatement & the like.

tion in preparing financial data for

your annual homage to Revenue
Canada.
I, for example, have found it invaluable in getting a handle on expense
deductions of various hnds, and capital cost allowances. Users whose needs
are quite disparate may each find creative permutations of this program that
suit their unique financial reporting
needs. While not a substitute for an

accountant or fullkeatured accounting.

package,particularly ifyou have a complex modern business,Quicken nevertheless takes the user a good ways
through the financial reporting maze
with ease.
Quicken can also be used as a payroll accounting system which not only
calculates but prints the paycheques.
There is an amazing degree of fiexibility in such a modestly price>i item .

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avoiding accounting jargon...but it is
so ploddingly written that I found
myself losing patience in reading
through the minutia of irrelevant
detail to get to the material I sought
for accomplishing a particular task
Quicken's interface is not particularly Mac-like. For example, in standard Mac programs, a double line
around a button indicates the default
choice that can be made by hitting
Return or Enter rather than clicking
with the mouse; in Quicken, hitting
either of these keys during such a dialog box event is more likely to instead
move you to another field in the dialog
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T hough in p a r t a t e x t / p r i n t i n g

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All other printers and printer drivers
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a non-postscript printer the program
does not support Adobe Type Manager
for printing high resolution text, producing instead a screen resolution
bitmap.
Quicken provides for a field in the
cheque printingarea where the user
can paste in his own art and/a r t ext.

Even though Intuit made a special feature so cheques would be printed in

Times Roman by a PastScript printer,
the ar t f i e l d d o e s n o t s u pport
PostScript graphics, only MacPaint

bitmap or Macoraw-type PICT formats, which can be created by a

HyperCard-based drawing program

that comes in the Quicken package

a gain without a p r o per F on t m e n n
(fonts are chosen from an unfamiliar

entry marked "text style" ). It seemr

clear that much of the program war
ported to the Macintosh platform &oin
the DOS version with little change.
An Intuit spokesman reports thai
releaseof a major upgrade, version 3.0,

is imminent an d w il l c o r r ect t hese

shortcomings, as well as adding man)

new features.Upgrade policy had nol

been se t

a t p r e s s t i m e , b u t t he

spokesman indicated that for pasl

upgrades, registered users could

upgrade for $25.00US.

Joe Wheeler is Director of Diversified Documen

Services, a paralegal and computer consulting
company in Victoria, B.C.

T HE (:QMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 6 9
WordPer
fgct royttinusdPora Page <None>
such as the deletion or highlighting of
the wrong charactersand anomalies in
the right margin position. Sometimes,
text was not inserted or deleted at the
insertion point, but rather a few letters
or words away. This condition also

occured periodically when an indent

command was applied within a document. It is surprising and unfortunate

font information set incorrectly, but

any attempt to change font definitions
or sizes in the graphic object caused
the program to crash 100% of the
time on a plain-vanilla Mac II running
System 6.05 with no INITs or other
unusual circumstances. This is clearly a

s erious bug

t h at , a c cording t o

Wo rdPerfect Tech support, doesn' t

occur if the file is indeed loaded into

the IBM version of WP 5.1 and saved

out again.One wonders why the Mac

that this serious bug slipped by the

program's betatesters.

Another problem happens when a

section of t ex t i s tr ansformed t o a

version doesn't just save in that format

to start with.

A smaller annoyance happens when

a complex graphicis placed on a page,
and text below it is adjusted, such as
inserting or deleting a carriage return.
In this case, even though the graphic is
not moved or otherwise disturbed, the

graphic object, as in the case of rotated

or stretched text. If such a document is

saved in WP 5.1 format (according to

WordPerfectsupport representative,
this is the recommended method for
exporting WordPerfect documents to
Aldus PageMaker) and then imported

entire screen is rekeshed each time

the lower portion is reformatted. This

problem does not occur in either MS

back into the program, not only is the

graphic text's character spacing and

Word or PageMaker 4.0, but is symptomatic of the sloppy programming

found inother areas of this program.
While the program's built-in thesaurus is a welcome addition (MS
Word uses a clumsy aden in the form
of the WordFinder deskaccessory), I
w as appalled t o di s c over t h a t

(s) 5 kilobytes when saved in IBM WP

5.1 format (including the rotated text).
When saved in WP2's nativeformat,
the same sixteen-word file occupied a
whopping 138K of disk spacel
While attempting to install more

include common words like IirlAKING

or WATCHING both present in every

macros, I was mystified to discover that

the "Install Macro" file selector dialog
was unable to find a f o l der starting
with the letters "WP2" (or anything fttrt her on in th e a l p habet) t hat I h a d

other thesaurus I' ve seen, including

t he one in WordPerfect for the I B M

placed on my drive.The program's

regular OPEN and SAVE dialogs had

and Atari STl Typing one of these

words into the Mac version produces
only a "Word not Found" beep, where-

n o pr o blem

as the other versions of WordPerfect

the Macro function. It seems that "WP"

is the last folder the Load Conversions
and Macros functionscan see.

WordPerfect's thesaurus does no t

look up the root word as they should.

I noticed a surprising variance in
the size of files created by the program's different SAVE AS... options.
For example, the file shown in Figure 1
(a total of 82 characters) was a mere

f i n d i n g t h e fo l d e r .

Renamed to a n ything else ( i . e.,

<space)WP2), the fblder was visible to

If a document is open with a small

amount of installed macros, and another one is opened with a large amount
of macros, the MACRO menu will corCorstr'rstradors page 71

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screen isclear and sharp, but is not
backlit and relies on reHected light for

heducL HP 95LX Palmtop PC with Lotus 1-2-3

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he HP 95LX Palmtop is quite
impressivel Two things strike
you right off the bat. First, it' s
much smaller than it looks in the ada

Second, it's much, much lighter than

you would imagine. It m easures 6.5

inches wide, 5.4 deep and 1 inch thick.

The weight is only ll onces. To add to
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IBM PC XTl I was using a real IBM XT
just a few days ago, and it weighted a
lot more than 11 oncesl Unlike hearing aids, though, there is a price to be

illumination (supertwist LCD - 164ines

by 40 characters). The limitations of
the HP 95LX are not eo much in the
design of the machine as in the desigrx
of our fingers and eyes.

1-2-$ in ROM
The Palmtop is built around a SOSS
processor and runs afullversion of
DOS 8.22. It comes standaxd with 512
KB of RAM, and contains a fum version
(2.2) of Lotus 1-2-5 built into ROM. In

InfoSpec Systems Inc.

addition to Lotus it has a personal

information manager, aHP financial
calculator and data communications
pregamealso built into ROM. There is
e ven a ga m e t hr o w n i n ca ll e d

EigerFox iQso, if 512 KB of RAM is

not enough, there is a RAM card slot
for an additional 512 K.
The HP runs on atro AA size batter-

ies or an AC adapter. In addition there

is a lithium backup battery as well
(something the Atari Portfolio could
benefit &om). The chance of loosing
data to a dead battery are Suirly slim.
Importing/exporting data and programs to and Rem the 95LX is as simple as plugging in the HP FI 001A
Connectivity Pack cable (sold separately) loading a communications prog ram (p rovided), an d t h a t' s i t .
Something that takes a bit of getting

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small size. The keys are unusable for

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the HP 95LX is that, unlike the Poqet

PC or the Alai Portfolio, this machine
actually fits in your shirt pocket, and
doesn't look hke your carrying a brick
arounxL It has all the power that a scientist, engineer or business person
would likely want in their podret. The
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processor, it would not be suitable, as
the keyboard is down right uncomfortable to type on for any amount of time.
The HP 95LX is really an extremely

powerful "corn pu-calculator and

should be given serious consideration

if your in the market for a truly pocketsized computer. If you are looking for
an electronic phone directory', the HP
is over-kilL If your looking for a lighterthan~ la p top, this isnot for yuu. It is
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 71

Mailbox

386SX systems is typically less than

$500, and given thatyou get more
horsepower with the 386 system, and

Continuedprim page 7

How about: buy one modem($125 will

buy a decent onc that yors can usc on either

your Apple or IBM). Save your files in

AppkMlinks as tert, DBF and WXSformats
then modemthem to a Piendly BBS Pom
onc machine and then modent them back to
your other machine. Another alternative

would bc tofind a user groupin your area

for Appk computers. If you canfind somconc with a Mac LCgnadan Appk II board,
they can reed thefiks into a Mac format,
then it can bc saved to an MOOS

9.5

inch dish.

Don't Buy an SX2

Regarding your on-going article,
titled "Your First Computer" in

Thc

Compute Pape (May andJune 1991) In

the May issue you state: "The difference between the 386 and the 386SX
above is the way they communicate
with the other parts of the computer."
Like many other people,you do not
seem to understand that there is a fun-

damental architectural difference

between the Intel 386 and 386SX
microprocessors, over and above the
32-bit versus 164it bus data transfers to

which you refer.

The 386SX is limited in the amount
of physical memory it can access by its
internal architecture, namely 24-bit

addressing. It can access a maximum

of 16 megabytes of physical memory.
The 386SX is totally incompatible with
the 386 when physicalmemory references involve addresses represented by
more than 24 bits.
Today the 386SX may be useful,
sometime soon it will not. Think a
step or two ahead can save money and

that there are no compatibility issues

with the 386, I advise people to buy

386 systems.

puters to do a little word processing, a

sprcadshcet o
f their budget, play a few
gentcs. It may still be rptorc cost fefective to
buy a cheaper one now and another chcapcr

onclater as their unagcincreases.

Yancouver ieublic Library

Online Catalogue

You might want to mention the

Vancouver Public Library's Online
Catalogue in your publication. It allows
computer users to check the catalogue
without visiting the library.
Nigel David Allen
Toronto, Ontario
8'c have mentioned it be
fore, but thanks
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and indexes, table-making, automatic

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Just Write does not have its own

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macros being exchanged on BBSes
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Windows wordyrocessors.

again 8

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VOL. 2 NO. 1

AUGUST 1991

Home Market
Applaudes
Head Start
Since ANObegan carrying the
HeadStart total home/small business computerpackage in May of
1991, it has quickly become a hot
seller. The driving force behind its
success is that it is a complete system.
And we mean complete. Aside
from the VGA colour graphics and
hard disk,each HeadStart comes
bundled with a 680MB CD-ROM

drive, a modem, a mouse, and over

52 applications programs.
Some of the hi-lites of the software library includes Groliers Encyclopedia, PC Globe, Microsoft
Bookshelf, Mavis Beacon Teaches
Typing, Quattro 1.0 Spreadsheet,
Qt!aA3.0(wordprocessor and data
base), and Publish-It! (desktop

publishing).
For potential personal computer users who are located in
remote regions and have been reluctant to purchase a system, Philips includes 1-800 support for
every system. We' vetested out
theirsupport personnel and believe me they' re top notch. The
knowledgeable gentleman on the
other end of the phone gave us the
type of support all manufacturer's
should provide.
If you' re considering getting a
system for the kids or small business the HeadStart line is definitely
worth looking into. Priced at $
2,850 for the 386sx and $2,420 for
the 286 it certainly won't hurt the
pocketbook either.

A Mon t h l y

Deal Inked

ANO ToGarry Ganofile

Preliminary negotiations with Canon Canada Inc. have resulted in the marketing of the Canofile 250 desktop electronic filing system by ANO Office
Automation. The Canofile product is revolutionary in that it provides a cost
effective solution to document management. Unlike other electronic document management systems costing upwards of $100,000 the Canofile weighs
in under $19,000.
"This is the first time the Canofile is beirig offered through a systems
dealer.", explains Mr. Glen Cunningham of Canon,"Our relationship with
ANO has been so successful in the past, it just seemed natural to let them market
it."

The Canofile 250 will be featured in September at Market Discover '91, and
the Vancouver Business Computer Show. Readers of ANOVATION can look
forward to a full length profile in the September issue.

Innovation

Zenith Breaks Barriers

Zenith Data Systems has always
been an innovator of leading edge
technology. Their involvement with
the EISA "gang of nine", the ACE
consortium, an d MPC (multi-media) is an indicator of how committed they are to technology.
Advancing technology is fine and
dandy but the computer industry
changes too rapidly to let outdated
product carry the bottomline. Except for the odd new product, Zenith

Data Systems has been relatively

quiet since the take over by Groupe
Bull in 1989.
Continued on Page 2

INSIDE THISISSUE
Novell Netware ..
Business Class ..
Tech Talk
Employee Purchase Plans ..
Duel-ing Bins... . . . . . . . . .

DOS 5.0 ..

New AST Products ..

LANtastic 4.0. . . .

..

Editorial.

Ne w sl et t e r f ro m A NO Of f i c e A ut o m a t i o n

NEW 8c
IMPROVED
Zenith Continued ..
Quiet to the outside world maybe, but working diligently on bringing Zenith back to the forefront in portable
computing technology. This is reflected in their 5 new portable products unveiled at this years Spring Comdex. The
most notable offerings include the firstbattery operated 486
and 486sx portable, and the first portable based on the Intel
386SL processor.
The 386SL isalready being heralded as one of the most
technologically innovative products since the battery oper-

ated Zenith SupersPort.

What makes the MastersPort/SL so unique is its ability
to last an average of 8 hours on a single battery charge. Not
t oo shabby considering the average portable lasts ~ w here from 45
minutes to 3 hours with average use. Sih'ce
you can leave it on for three weeks without having to
recharge,the unit doesn't have an ON/OFF switch. And
once it does run out of juice, itonly takes an hour to recharge
to full load.
"Anybody who thought Zenith Data Systems was dead
in the water is sadly mistaken. The SL, our 486 portables,
and our participation with the ACE Consortium truly reflects a company o n t h e m o v e. " p r o c l aims K o sta
Chatzispiros, Director of Sales & Marketing for Zenith's
Reseller Channel at a recent open house at the new Vancouver facilities.
For information and availability, please contact the
ANO office closest to you.
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In other news from ZDS, two new LAN oriented pr'oductshavebeen released-an incredibly potent LAN fileserver,
and aspace saving LAN workstation. The server isbased
on the EISA architecture with a powerful RADE 5 SCSI disk
subsystem, while the low profile workstation houses an
Intel 16MHz 386sx processor. Both are currently shipping.

The Z486f33ET server is big on network expansion and performance.

Con nectivity

Novell Revamps Netware

Novell Inc. of Provost, Utah recently revamped its Netware product line. The move includes a name change of its 386
network operating system from Netware 386 3.1 to Netware 3.11, and the merging of the four ELS and Advanced products
to Netware 2.2 - with some major and minor additions added to both product lines.
"This certainlymakes our job and the customer's buying decision easier.",explains Carmine DiMarco, Manager of
ANO's Network Information Systems Group,"Even though Netware is the number one PC based network OS on the
market (50%+ share), this can only make it a stronger product."
One reason why many small businesses avoided buying into Netware was out of shear confusion. Although upgrades
were available from one level to the next, each offered such a wide range of features and advantages, the upgrade path
offered little comfort. By making 3.11 and 2,2 completely different, selecting a version is cut and dry you either need one
or the other.
For users that already have invested into ELS, Advanced, or 386 an upgrade is available directly through Novell. If
purchased after April 1, 1991 the upgrade is free (until September 30, 1991), otherwise you should contact Novell at1-800NETWARE .

NEW4 IMPROVED
Cost Effective

AND Unveil
s Business Class ForEconomy
The signature of ANOOffice Automation has always been affordable
product backed by a powerful service network. On May
31, 1991 this was taken one
step further with the introduction of the Business Class
line of personal computers.
Priced for th e b u dget
contious user, the Business
Class line ranges from a slim
line 286 based network stat ion, all th e wa y u p t o a
powerful tower EISA 33MHz
486. One of the most flexible
lines of personal computers
on the market, each system is
configurable to any u sers
needs.
Talking about this new
line of PCs Mr. Toby Chu,
CEO of ANOOffice Automation was at no loss for words,

" As a multi-million dollar company c a t ional, and international corporate

installing into major government, edu- a ccounts we cannot afford to let garbage walk out ou r d o o rs.
Which is wh y c o m p u ters
baring the Business Class
logo will set a new standard
for cost effective computing.
A standard which our competition will be hard pressed
to duplicate."
Initial indications from the
m arket h av e b een o v e r whelming. Historically, sales
f igures tend to d r o p 3 0 %
b elow the m o n thl y m e an
d uring June. T h i s y e a r ,
however, sales drooped a
meagre 9% from the monthly
average. Significantevidence
that the Business Class will
be the one to watch for 1991.
3

Tech Talk with Ken Ng

Video Memory
Q

What does additional memory on a VGA video card do?

A.
Vid e o memory is similar to
memory in a laser printer in that it doesn't improve speed, but simply what it is capable
of producing.
Let me explain, on a laser printer the amount of memory dictates the amount of graphics it is capable of printing on
one page. With a video card it means the number of colours it is capable of displaying on the monitor at one time (see Figure
1.1). The advantage to more colours is that at higher resolutions the picture is more realistic. Of course the software you
use must also support the video card and its extended resolutions.

Memory
512K

1024 x 768

800 x 600

640 x 480

16

256

256

Figure 1.1 shows how various video modes are affected by the amount of video memory on an ATI Wonder Plus XL card.

FEATURE
Helping Hand

Employee Purchase Plans

The personal computer has meant a massive shift in the
employment market. Companies that are automating for
the first time, or are shifting to newer automated systems
are often forced to either spend a lot of money on training
or look elsewhere for help.
One way to avoid this dilemma is by having PCs in the
employees homes. This hasother side benefits such as
reduced employeeturnover,easier acceptance of new technologies, the ability to promote within, and bulk buying
discounts.
In this article we will give you some ideas on how to
implement an employee purchase plan (EPP). Through
proper implementation an EPP can prove profitable for
everyone who's involved.

STEP 1

the amount of money they would be willing to spend. The

information you collect will be vital when approaching
computer vendorsforpricing.

STEP 4
Approach at least 5 different vendors with your proposal. Be sure to give t h e m as much information as
possible,
and expect in return a good deal more information.
Aside from pricing, you should also get some information on the following:
1. Years in business;
2. Referencesfrom other companies they have done
EPPs with;
3, Support policy;
4. Training options;
5. Return policy;
6. N u mber & quality of support staff;
7. Shipping arrangements;
8. Terms of the sale;

Before anything else a group of people (an odd number

is preferred) should be relegated the responsibility of organization. Since EPPs are very time consuming it is best if
the responsibilities are broken down. A l s o, the people
involved should be relatively knowledgeable about computers and the market place
Don't leave anything out. Forgetting something could
By having a group of people you will also be reducing
any biasestowards one particular vendor. The successful lead to headaches in the long run.
vendor should be selected on their merits and ability to
STEP 5
servicethe new computer users.
One of the most dangerous things about evaluating a
STEP 2
vendor (especially when in a remote location) is that anyone
The next step is to present management with a proposal. Offer various options on how you plan on impleContinued on Page6
menting such a project. The most significant variable to the
company of course is what it will cost them.
Many
offer subsidies in the form
of interest free loans, reduced interest rate loans
through a banking institution via a guarantee
by thecompany, or a subsidy directly from the
company such as 10% 50% of the purchase
cost. Be sure that you outline the importance of
this project and that it is more of an investment
than an expense.

organizations

STEP 3
After the finance portion has been ironed
out, it is time to petition the employees. Be sure
to include an area in your petition for the type
of equipment they would be interested in and EPPs can save an organization money by helping to reduce training & re-training costs.

FEATUREPRODUCT

Time Saver

The Dueling Bins

Many offices already enjoy the numerous benefits of

operating Canon laser printers. Scalable and rotatable
fonts, flexibility of paper handling, simplicity of use, low
maintenancecosts,and crisp sharp characters and graphics
every time. Flexibility of paper handling, in a high volume
office or in a networking environment, is the biggest consideration when evaluating laser printers.
The Canon dual Bin Printers offer just that - flexibility.
They save time while doing more. Stalling a print job while
finding some way to change from letter to legal paper, or to
print the envelope alongside the letter is a thing of the past
with the LBP-8 Mark IIIT and IIIR. Now the power of
Canon's CaPSL language, an8PPM Canon Engine, 32-bit
processing, and dual bin technology are bundled together
to ensure the job is done easily and done on time.

LBP-8 MARK IIIR

Looking for that extra edge on the competition while
saving some money? The Canon Mark IIIR offers professional-looking, cost effective printing with the added convenience of duplex printing - printing on both sides of the
paper. No longer do you have to waist time trying to figure
out how to flip your documents over manually to print on
both sides. When you start printing on both sides of your
paper you slim weighty documents, lighten mailing costs,
and eliminate the intimidation of long thick reports.

VIRTUALLY MAINTENANGE-FREE

As with the entire line of Canon laser printers, maintenance costs are kept at a minimum by using an all-in-one
disposable EP cartridge system. Essentially the drum,
developer, and toner are combined in an easy to install carLBP-8 MARK IIIT
tridge. Every time you replace the EP cartridge the printer
The Canon LBP-8 Mark IIIT offers dual paper cassettes is virtually brand new again.
If you have been looking for a printer to handle high
thattogether hold up to 400 sheets. You can choose between
letter, legal, executive, A4 and envelope trays and use them volume or to attach to your LAN the Canon LBP-8 Mark IIIT
in many combinations, with letterhead and white, or for and Mark IIIR are definitely worth checking into.
legalsized spreadsheets and executive sized memos. This
solution also takes up no more deskspace than Canon's LBP
Mark III 8PPM Laser.

UPGRADES
Long Awaited

OOS 5.0 Is Here

In the December 1990 issue of ANOVATION we announced that Microsoft was working on DOS Version 5.0. This
latest and probably the greatest release is now on the shelves and shipping in full force.
What makes DOS 5.0 so much different from earlier releases, was Microsoft's commitment to the needs of the end
.users. We wanted more base memory to run applications- they delivered with flying colours. We wanted a help function
for command sequences - they delivered. We wanted task switching - they delivered. We wanted useful utilities - they
delivered. And they continued to deliver with a new improved BASIC programing language, a built in text editor, and
a leaner meaner OS.
For most users the biggest advantage will be the freeing up of base memory. On a 386 system with nothing loaded
but the COMMAND.COM as much as 627K of base memory is freed up - a far cry from DOS 3.3 and 4.01. This additional
memory will make network administrator's and power users work a lot happier.

': Helping Hand

Employee PurchasePlans Continued

S7EP7

can look good on paper. If at all possible try to visit each

vendors office or get some photographs. Sometimes the
best price is not always the best value. You want a vendor
who has not onlybeen around awhile
but one which will be there in the fu- I
~e.

Once everything has been selected and it is time to put

the deal together, have the successful vendor provide you
with a genenc order form for the
employees to fill out. This will make
life much easier for both the vendor
and yourselves.

STEP 6
Take special care in deciding on
w hat equipment to go w i th . A l though most PCs pretty much look
the same from the outside it is the
innards that are important. On name
, brand systems such as Philips/Mag,: navox, AST, Zenith, and Samsung,
' '. -:quality is not an issue. However, the
''so-called clones require a little more

IN SUMMARY
In summary, here are the steps in

preparing an EPP:

1. Form committee (5 or more

preferred);
2. Prepare proposal for the

company;
3. Petition the employees;
4. Solicit proposals from

thought.
With a clone, take special care to assure you are getting
vendors;
-. good value for your money. Sloppy workmanship and a
5. Evaluate vendors merits;
poor grade of components will lead to a lot of unhappy
6.- Evaluate products;
employees should you make the wrong decision.
7. Order equipment;
If at all possible set aside a week for the vendors to
-'!demonstrate
their products when it is most convenient for
EPPs are an excellent opportunity for both the comA,'
'.:.the employees - one day for each vendor should suffice. If . pany and its employees. Taking the time to do it right will
;this isnot possible, have the vendors send up sample make all the difference in the world.
systems and peripherals for display.

NEW 5 IMPROVED

New Products

In With The New

AST Research of Mississauga,ON
recently released three exciting new
desktop products. The most important being a Premium II system based
around Intels new 486sx processor.

PREMIUM II 486sx/20
What makes the486sx processor
differentfrom the standard 486 processoristhe absence of a math co-processor. By removing the co-processor,
Intel was able to provide a solution for
the business user that doesn't require
floating point functionality. A 487sx
co-processorisavailable asan upgrade
feature for those who may need it in
the future,
Although it is only operating at
20MHz the 486sx isreported to be
between 30to40% fasterthan a33MHz
386 system. T his is accomplished
through an 8K on-chip cache, and
variousother enhancements.

AST's Premium II 486sx system is

definitely worth taking a look at. Standard features include 2MB of RAM, an
on-board VGA adapter, and of course
full CUPID-32 upgradeability should
one needtomove up toa486/33 or 586.

NEW BRAVOS
AST is revamping its Bravo line of
inexpensive workstations by replacing the 286 and 386sx systems with a
16MHz 286 and a 20MHz 386sx. Aside
from the processor changes, other
enhancementshavebeen made, including an on-board VGA adapter, memory expandability to 16MB on-board,
the ability for the 286 to be upgraded to
a 20MHz 386sx via a plug in module,
and a slightly larger chassis.
These new systems are priced very
competitively, making them an excellent solution for network nodes.

Networking Windows

I.ANtastic 4.0 Adds Windows

workstation, plus an add on product
which offers a windows interface to
the NET and NET-MGR programs- including icons, and pull down menus
without loss of functionality.
Other enhancements include an
even further simplified installation
routine, the ability to unload the
LANtastic drivers from RAM, remote
batch command execution,direct supArtisoft Inc. of Tucson, Arizona, port for Uninteruptable Power Suphas recently begun shipping version plies, more advanced utilities, and a
4.0 of their award winning LANtastic site license option for up to 300 users.
peer-to-peer network operating sysFor information on upgrading,
tem. One of the biggest advancements please contact the ANO office nearest
with this new release is the addition of you.
support for Windows 3.0 support in all
three modes oneither the server &/or

EDITORIAL

Lights OIIt
By ToddWm. Drahoff

In previous issues we have made

mention of Uninteruptable Power
Supplies. This was not intended to
scare you into investing in one, we
were simply pointing out the facts.
Now facts are nice, but real life
stories are something completely
different. They are reality. And
believe you me I have been witness
to reality on more than one
occasion - twice in our office and
twice at customer's sites.

Just recently, on a beautiful sunny

June day, I was working on a

feature article for a future ANOVATION

newsletter when all of the power cut off.
Of course I lost anything that hadn't been
saved since the last backup (which only
amounted to about 3 minutes). The UPS
attached to our Novell file server, how-

UPS is more than an expense, it is an

ever, kept the system running beautifully

until our administrator could get to it to

have everything from a UPS for a

stand alone station, to a big gun
product to handle the heavy work-

do a shutdown and turn it off. Without

this little piece of hardware I don't no
where we would have been - a corrupted

file system is a definite possibility,

insurance policy.
I would personally recommend the
American Power Conversion (APC

for short) line of products. They

load.

a network that is without some form of

Take it from me it only takes one

incident to appreciate the true value
of a UPS - for some of us we got to
experience it four times. Guess you

backup power protection is asking for

can imagine how appreciative I am.

Now I'm not preaching, but anyone with

trouble. According to statistics, power is

the major cause of system failures. A

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