Ref: 08740003 Title: 3S/400 User's Release Notes 3+Version 1.3 Date: 7-6-89 Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991. All rights reserved. 3+ Version 1.3 Part Number 3370-00 12/18/87 3S/400 User's Release Notes 3+ Version 1.3 This document provides information related to the use of 3+ network software. Read this information carefully before using your 3+ software. This set of release notes is divided into seven sections: General Release Notes 3+File and 3+Print 3+Mail 3+Route and 3+Remote 3+Menus NetDOS New 3+ Command The abbreviated titles for the guides that the release notes reference are: Mail 3+Mail User Guide Menus 3+Menus Reference Guide MMinder 3+MailMinder User 3+Share User Guide General Release Notes Compaq Portable or Deskpro Computers For proper operation, a Compaq Portable or Deskpro requires ROM Revision J. To find out what Compaq ROMs you have: 1. Start your Compaq using the Compaq diagnostics diskette. 2. Type test and press [Return]. 3. Choose option 5, ROMREV. The version of your ROMs is displayed. (See your network administrator about getting a ROM upgrade.) Internal Error User, p. A-15 The message: Internal error means you have exceeded the maximum number of entries established for the Login Library Manager. Each time you give a 3F LINK, 3F DIR, 3P LINK, 3P DIR, or 3N ASSIGN command, an entry is made in the Login Library (the default is eight and duplicate entries are not counted). If you regularly need more than eight entries, ask your network administrator to adjust the number of entries allowed. (To remove all current Login Library entries, reboot the netstation.) LGL Not Loaded Can't Access 3Com Process Manager User, p. A-16 If the error messages: LGL Not Loaded or Can't Access 3Com Process Manager appear after formatting a diskette, list the diskette's directory using the DOS DIR command. You should then be able to continue. Too Many Redirections User, p. A-31 The message: Too many redirections indicates that you have used more links than you are allowed for your netstation. See your network administrator about increasing the number of NetBIOS and MSREDIR sessions for your netstation. 3+ File and Print 3P QSTAT Command User, p. 9-17 The 3P QSTAT command lists the files in a printer's queue. When QSTAT lists these files, the status line indicates the condition of each file, as follows: Intercept: You have not finished sending data to the queue. This condition occurs when you use the 3P SET/HOLD option, when you are printing from an application and you have not yet pressed [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Prtsc], or when you are printing from an application that does not send a DOS CLOSE command (and you have not exited the application). Exiting an application automatically sends a DOS CLOSE command. Deferred: Your job has been sent to the queue, but you specified that the printing of the job should be delayed with the 3P SET /DEFER command. Waiting: Your job has been sent to the queue, but another job has a higher priority. Your job will print when those with a higher priority finish. Printing: Your job is currently printing. Print error: An error has occurred at the printer. This message usually means the printer is out of paper or off- line. File error: The server is out of disk space for the print queue files. UNSHARE Command User, p. 7-19 The 3F UNSHARE command deletes only the specified sharename, not the directory assigned to the sharename, as the 3+Share User Guide states. (To delete an empty directory, use the DOS RMDIR command.) Using a New Style IBM Keyboard User, p. 5-1 If you are using an IBM keyboard that does not have [Prtsc] and [*] on the same key, close print spool files by pressing [Ctrl]+ Alt]+[*] (where [*] is the key directly above the [9] on the numeric keypad). 3+Mail (Version 1.2.1) Attachments Mail, p. 2-8, 5-4 You can add up to 25 attachments to a message. Can't find ... Mail, p.C-6 The message: Can't find But domain is a Remote Domain means you have tried to send a message to a user who cannot be found in the local Name service. The domain specified, however, does exist in the local Name service. To send the message anyway, type a Y and the 3+Mail server attempt s to deliver the message to the remote domain:organization. If the user cannot be found on the remote network, the mail server returns the message as undelivered mail. To avoid this prompt when sending mail to users in remote domains, use the /NP parameter when running the mail program (for example, MAIL E: /NP). Color Graphics Mail, p.3-4 3+Mail version 1.2.1 supports color on color graphics and enhanced color graphics systems. To display mail in color, type: MAIL /DISPLAYTYPE=x where x is B, D, or E. Each of these letters represents a different color combination, as shown on the next page. Filing Mail Messages to Multiple Floppy Diskettes Mail, p. 6-5 When filing mail messages to a netstation with a single diskette drive, do not simply insert a new diskette into the same drive and continue filing messages (for example when the first diskette fills up). Doing so results in false directory information on the new diskette and makes its files inaccessible. If you want to file messages to another diskette, use the following steps: 1. Exit 3+Mail. 2. Remove the current diskette. 3. Insert a formatted diskette. 4. Use the DOS DIR command to list the directory of the new diskette. 5. Run 3+Mail again. You can now file messages to the new diskette. If your netstation has two diskette drives and you are running mail from a network drive, you can safely file messages to two diskettes by placing one in drive A and one in drive B:. Running 3+Mail from a Dual Floppy System Mail, p. A-2 If you want to run 3+Mail locally using dual floppy drives, insert the diskette containing the MAIL.EXE program in drive A: and a formatted diskette in drive B. With drive A: as your current drive, type the command A>MAIL B: to start the 3+Mail program. Do not file mail to the diskette containing the MAIL.EXE program or you may lose files and directories. Using 3+MailMinder MMinder, p. 1-4 The 3+MailMinder program is now included on the 3+Mail user diskette. To display 3+MailMinder in color, start it with with the command: MMinder /color=on 3+Route and 3+Remote Mixing Hayes and Microcom Modems If you are sending data from a Hayes modem to a Microcom modem or vice versa and you begin to experience slow or unreliable data transfer, put the Microcom modem into Hayes emulation mode. Name Conflict Detected To minimize phone charges, NetBIOS defers phone dialing until the latest possible time. Unless a NetBIOS application requires a specific workstation name, leave the SETNAME parameters in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file as $$3COM$$. Otherwise, when the deferred phone connection is finally attempted, NetBIOS may display a Name conflict detected message. SETNAME normally requires access to the Locator when the workstation boots. 3Com uses a proprietary form of the ADD NAME command that does not access the Locator (and thereby checks for the uniqueness of the workstation's name) until some other access is required. This ensures that 3+Remote users do not incur phone charges by just starting up their machines. The message Name conflict detected may be displayed if the name specified by SETNAME is not unique. To avoid this problem, make sure your workstation has a unique name by always using the default $$3COM$$ name (which uses the network adapter address as the station name). 3+Menus Specifying a Menu Task Item Menus p. 5-15 When entering the name of the command in the Run File or Command line of the Task Item form, you do not need to enter the command's extension. If you include an extension, make sure it matches the Run File Type. For example, specifying the batch file BATCHFIL.BAT but giving it a Run File Type of Program, causes an error because 3+Menus treats the batch file as if it were a program. NetDOS The MS-DOS utilities FC.EXE and VDISK.SYS were inadvertently omitted from this release of NetDOS. The utilities are available with the optional 3+NetDOS package. New 3+ Command SENDMSG Sends messages from user to user. Format SENDMSG Parameters None Remarks The SENDMSG command allows you to send messages to other users on the network. When you send a message with SENDMSG, the message is instantly displayed on the recipient's screen, regardless of the application program the recipient is running. When you enter the SENDMSG command at any DOS prompt, the message form is displayed. NOTE: If your form contains two destination fields, Broadcast Destination and Directed Destination, you are a user with Network Administrator capability. An Administrator's message form is slightly different than a user's form. For directions to using the administrator's form, refer to the 3+Share Administrator's Guide. The fields are explained below: Default Domain Contains the name of your default domain. This field cannot be changed. If you intend to send a message to someone who is not a part of your default domain, you need to enter the correct domain in the destination field. Default Organization Contains the name of your default organization. This field cannot be changed. As with the default domain, you need to enter the correct organization in the destination field if you intend to send the message to someone who is not a part of your default organization. Priority Level Sets the priority level of the message. The value can be from 0 to 9 with 0 the highest priority. Priority levels 0 through 2 are typically reserved for use by the Network Administrator. Only network administrators can assign a priority level of 0 to a message. Users can use the priority level to ignore or mask out messages from other users and the network administrator. For example, a user can configure the netstation to ignore messages with priority levels of 3 to 9 and display only those with a priority of 0 through 2. This prevents the user from being interrupted by unnecessary messages. (For complete details on message priorities, see your network administrator.) Message Destination You enter in this field the destination of your message. The destination is the name of a user, group, or domain. For example, to send a message to user John Smith you enter: JOHN SMITH If the user is not a member of your default domain or organization, this information must be entered along with the name. (Your default domain and organization are displayed at the top of the for7m.) For example, to send a message to user John Smith in the Sales domain, enter: JOHN SMITH:SALES To send a message to all the users of a domain, enter the name of the domain preceded by an asterisk (*). For example, entering the following command in the Directed Destination field sends your message to all users in the Sales domain. *:SALES You can also send your message to all the members of a group, such as a mail group. This entry in the Message Destination field distributes your message to everyone in the group docstaff in the Sales domain. DOCSTAFF:SALES Message Field This is the field where you enter your message. A message can be up to two lines, with 74 characters per line. Special characters (i.e., %, +, =) are allowed. When you receive a message from another user, it looks like this on your screen: (drawing in hardcopy of manual) You clear the message from the screen by typing C for clear. The message disappears and you can resume work. You cannot continue with your work until the message is cleared from the screen. You can also clear the message but keep it in the computer's memory, possibly to recall it later, with the [Esc] key. When you press [Esc], the message disappears but remains in memory. The message is recalled with the hot key, which is a combination of three keys that, when pressed simultaneously, recalls the last message cleared from the screen with [Esc]. The default hot key combination is [Alt]+[Left Shift]+[R]. You can adjust two features of the message program when a message is on the screen. The first is the netstation beep. If you do not want your netstation to beep every time a message arrives, type the letter B. This toggles on and off the netstation beep. If you turn it off, the netstation will not beep. This continues until you either turn off or reset your netstation, at which time the beep is turned on again. If you want to permanently turn off the beep, refer to the instructions in the section "Customizing the Message Program." The second feature is referred to as the AUTO feature. When AUTO is turned on, a message from another user automatically appears on your screen. This is the default. If you turn the feature off by typing the letter A, a received message remains hidden until you display it with the hot key. As with the netstation beep, this continues until you turn off or reset your netstation, at which time the AUTO feature is turned on again. We do not recommend that you turn off both the netstation beep and the AUTO feature, otherwise you will have no way of knowing when you have received a message. Changes to the message program can are made with the RECVMSG command. For details on the RECVMSG command, see you network administrator.