I am a Rev G2B developer for the last 14 years. My apps run on Novell and Lantastic 6.0 and prior; however, I want to see if it is possible to run on Win95 peer-to-peer networks. Can anybody give me some direction if this is possible?

Thanks,

Tom Snider

San Antonio, Texas

It should be possible, provided you can run off a dedicated machine. Charles Schmilling has a TSR that he has had luck with that might help. He'll probably be posting with more information.

apk@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

Thanks for the introduction Aaron…

Greetings Tom,

I have a TSR that allows a server running RevG2 and AREV to become a workstation. It basically lies to the Int21 calls - returning network status for local drives. This allows for LOCKs to function on the server/workstation as well as other workstations. There are some caveats but I have been running it on a 5 station network for over a year with no apparent problems. What problems I do have are more code related rather than anything I can blame on this configuration. I have given this TSR to others (6 or so) that have reported positive results.

I am not overly enamored with the Win95 peer-to-peer network. Speed hasa not been a problem but I have had a sufficient number of unexplained network freeze-ups that are beginning to bug me. My other problem has been in capturing DOS print jobs to HP inkjet printers - the cheap ones you get at Costco. They just stop half way thru printing, if they start at all. I don't know why. Another problem is PDISK: if you change your printer port, you need to PDISK to a text file and PCPERFORM TYPE the file to a non-PRN printer port (e.g. ] LPT2). For some reason, PDISK doesn't quite work the way you'd expect in Win95.

It would be better if you can dedicate a server. If it needs to be a workstation, email me directly and I'll send the TSR to you to try.

Much luck,

Charles Schmidling

DATASCAN SYSTEMS, Inc.

cbms@belnet.com

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