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A network version of New Deal Office, designed to run from a network server, is available. Please contact New Deal sales for information about the network version.
file handles = 100in the file.
To create the file, type the following at the DOS prompt:
echo file handles = 100 > shell.cfgthen press the Enter key.
New Deal software should print a printer test page, with approximately half-inch high letters clearly written across the page. If it does not print anything, close the Printer section of Preferences and open the computer section. If you are printing over a redirected parallel (LPT) port, change the interface setting on that port to DOS. If the DOS setting does not work, try the BIOS setting.
If printing still does not work correctly on your network printer, but you are able to print to it from other programs, the problem may be a general printer problem and may not have to do with the Novell network at all. See support document 214 for general printing help.
If your printouts are on laser printers and show stray characters, you need to use Netware's PRINTCON to modify the Print Job Configuration. Change the File Contents option to Byte Stream (rather than text) to solve the problem.
With New Deal, you can use extended attributes to set a document to "Public" access. This will enable multiple users to open the document, but not save modifications to the same file name. To open the document for editing, you select the For Editing button in the Open File dialog box. In most cases, Public is a better choice for file sharing than Read Only. See your New Deal manual for more information about file attributes.
In the login script, there are lines like this:
MAP F:=DRIVE:DIR1\DIR2which make a directory or subdirectory on the server (in this case \DIR1\DIR2) appear as a separate hard drive (in this case F:) on your workstation. The problem with this usage is that the user can back out of the selected directory (by typing CD.. at the DOS prompt, for example) all the way to the root directory of the server drive.
New Deal automatically looks for the root directory of every drive it finds. Therefore, if your system is counting on finding COMMAND.COM, the DOS file interpreter, in a particular network directory when you exit New Deal, it won't. It will instead be looking at the root directory of that drive.
The solution is to use the ROOT option when setting up drives in your login script. The ROOT option prevents users from backing out of the mapped directory. (The ROOT option should probably be used all the time anyway, to prevent users from accessing the root directory). The equivalent command to the above, using ROOT, would be as follows:
MAP ROOT F:=DRIVE:DIR1\DIR2