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- This is a modified version of the official Novell press release
- concerning the LAN WorkPlace for DOS version 4.0. Technical content
- has been beefed up for this posting to the Usenet (comp.newprod) and
- NetWire.
-
- Brian Meek - 02/08/1991
- Product Manager - Novell, San Jose Development Center
- --
-
- NOVELL ANNOUNCES NEW LAN WorkPlace for DOS
-
- Hardware-Independent TCP/IP Networking Software Links DOS and Windows
- Clients With Enterprise-Wide Information Systems
-
-
- BOSTON, Mass., NETWORLD -- February 11, 1991 -- Novell, Inc., developer of
- NetWare systems software products, today announced a new, hardware and
- media-independent version of LAN WorkPlace for DOS connectivity software,
- which provides DOS and Windows users with direct, concurrent access to UNIX
- systems, DEC VAX minicomputers, IBM mainframes and NetWare servers, via the
- industry-standard TCP/IP protocol suite.
-
- Hardware and media-independence allow LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 to operate
- with common Ethernet, Token-Ring and Arcnet adapters. The product also
- lets users maintain simultaneous sessions in, and move data among, a
- variety of computing environments. For example, users can cut and paste
- between a UNIX mail message and a DOS-based word processing document.
-
- "Many customers have asked for a fully supported TCP/IP implementation that
- leverages their existing hardware and integrates TCP/IP services with the
- NetWare environment," said Bob Davis, director of product marketing at
- Novell's San Jose development center. "LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 gives
- users full citizenship in a variety of computing environments, and allows
- them direct access to the broad range of services typical of today's multi-
- vendor networks."
-
- LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 is based on an optimized TCP/IP protocol stack
- designed by Novell to provide DOS and/or Windows users with high-
- performance TCP/IP connectivity while consuming a minimum of system
- memory. The TCP/IP transport facilities are augmented by two full sets
- of new applications that provide File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and
- terminal emulation (Telnet) services for both Windows and the
- conventional DOS environments.
-
- LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 also allows NetWare clients to connect directly
- to NetWare v3.11 servers that are accessible only via TCP/IP routes, or
- to coexist with NetWare v3.11 servers in an environment where only TCP/IP
- transport protocols are to be used.
-
- The TCP/IP in LAN WorkPlace provides a stable platform for a variety of
- products from leading software vendors. Implementations of X-Windows,
- TN-3270, NFS Client and SQL Database services are available. Developers
- wishing to write DOS and Windows applications that use TCP/IP in a
- NetWare environment will want to purchase the developer's version of LAN
- WorkPlace: LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS.
-
- -- Windows 3.0 TCP/IP Service Applications --
-
- -o- Host Presenter -- provides up to ten simultaneous Telnet session
- windows (emulating a VT220, VT52 or VT100 terminal) to multiple
- TCP/IP-equipped hosts. Most international keyboards and character
- sets are supported. Includes an extensive script language.
-
- -o- Serving FTP -- a Windows-based "FTP daemon" that runs in the
- background under Windows, waiting for an FTP user to establish a
- connection with the PC and initiate file transfers to or from local
- disk drives or NetWare volumes.
-
- -o- File Express -- provides a graphical front-end that makes FTP file
- transfer between NetWare, DOS, Unix and other file systems simple
- and intuitive. Features include recursive directory copies, copies
- between two remote hosts, remote file-find by wild card and direct
- printing of remote files to Windows printers.
-
- -- Conventional DOS TCP/IP Service Applications --
-
- -o- TNVT220 is a DEC series terminal emulator for Telnet that supports
- up to 10 simultaneous sessions. TNVT220's keyboard usage is user
- definable, and it supports most international keyboards and
- character sets using DOS 3.3 language-specific code pages.
-
- -o- TelAPI (Telnet API) provides a "Telnet Engine" for LAN WorkPlace
- and 3rd party terminal emulators. Off-the-shelf communication
- programs supporting BAPI, EtherTerm, Int14, Extended Int14 or the
- NETCI LAN communication interfaces can utilize Telnet connections
- via TelAPI.
- Note: TelAPI-specific programming extensions for establishing
- connections and Telnet option negotiation are documented in
- the LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS.
-
- -o- Telnet Session Utility (TSU) is included to establish Telnet
- connections and perform Telnet option negotiation for terminal
- emulators designed to use any of TelAPI's standard LAN
- communication interfaces. TSU can be invoked using command-line
- options from a batch file, or can be used interactively in menu mode.
-
- -o- R-Utilities - rsh (remote shell) and rexec (remote execute) for
- remote command execution, rcp (remote copy) copies files between
- NetWare, DOS and UNIX file systems, rpr (remote print) sends files
- to remote hosts for printing.
-
- -o- FTP, FTPd, TFTP, TFTPd - Traditional FTP command-line interface.
- FTP and TFTP client applications can be invoked using batch and
- script files.
-
- -o- All conventional DOS applications operate correctly in multitasking
- environments such as DESQview and Windows v3.0 due to the fully
- reentrant TCP/IP stack.
-
- -- TCP/IP Transport utilities / drivers --
-
- -o- Netstat (can query remote LAN WorkPlace TCP/IP protocol stacks as
- well as that of the local host) and Ping.
-
- -o- IPTunnel driver. This ODI Multiple Link Interface Driver (MLID)
- encapsulates IPX datagrams in UDP/IP packets. Use of this driver
- allows a DOS-based NetWare client to attach to one or more NetWare
- servers that are accessible only through an IP internet. The
- target server must be either a NetWare v3.11 server with the
- IPTUNNEL.LAN driver installed (a standard feature of NetWare v3.11)
- or a NetWare 2.x server with Schneider & Koch's SK-IPX/IP Gateway
- product installed (the SK-IPX/IP gateway can also be installed in a
- NetWare external IPX router).
-
- -o- Convert (enables the use of applications written to prior LAN
- WorkPlace releases).
-
- -o- NetBIOS session layer. A Broadcast-Node implementation of
- NetBIOS Service Protocol on TCP/IP - RFCs 1001, 1002.
-
- -- RAM usage of DOS ODI, TCP/IP and related drivers --
-
- Drivers are listed in the approximate order in which they are loaded.
-
- Driver Description Default Size Size Range
- TSR name (Approximate size in KB.)
- ------ ----------- ------------ -------------
- LSL.COM Link Support Layer 19.5 4 - 30
- NE2000.COM Board specific driver 3.8 Varies with NIC
- TCPIP.EXE TCP/IP protocol stack 19 12 - 26
- IPTUNNEL.EXE Software MLID IPXonIP 2.4 n/a
- IPXODI.COM NetWare SPX/IPX stack 14 9 - 14
- ???NET?.COM NetWare Shell 7 - 43 7KB with XMS/EMS
- TELAPI.EXE TelAPI (Telnet API) 21 17 - 33
-
- All ODI LAN drivers, protocol stacks, and NetWare drivers operate
- correctly when loaded in high memory regions using 386 memory managers
- such as QEMM-386. All can be sequentially unloaded from RAM without
- having to reboot.
-
- LAN hardware drivers for the following boards are currently included with
- LAN WorkPlace for DOS:
-
- -o- Ethernet --
- Novell -- NE-1000, NE-2000, NE/2, NE/2-32, EXOS 205T, EXOS 215T
- 3Com -- 3C501, 3C503, 3C505, 3C523
- -o- ARCnet --
- Novell -- RX-Net, Turbo RX-Net
- -o- Token-Ring
- IBM Token-Ring Adapter I or II (direct to hardware)
- IBM Token-Ring via IBM LAN Support.
-
- Check with your LAN hardware vendor for availability of ODI drivers for
- DOS.
-
- -- LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS --
-
- LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS is a super-set of the LAN WorkPlace for DOS
- package. It is available to developers who wish to write applications
- for DOS and Microsoft Windows 3.0 that use TCP/IP and work reliably in a
- NetWare environment.
-
- The following programmatic inferfaces are supported:
-
- -o- Socket Library. Conforms to the Berkeley socket interface model and
- is current with the 4.3 Berkeley Software Distribution. Up to 64
- TCP sockets and 32 UDP sockets can be established concurrently.
- Socket Libraries are included for both conventional DOS programming
- and for Windows programming to the WSOCKET.DLL included with LAN
- WorkPlace.
-
- -o- TelAPI (Telnet API) The toolkit includes programmer's documentation
- for the TelAPI component of the end-user and developer packages.
-
- -o- NetBIOS (NetBIOS Service Protocol on TCP/IP) - RFCs 1001, 1002.
- The toolkit includes programmer's documentation for the NetBIOS
- component of the end-user and developer packages.
-
- -- Pricing and Availability --
-
- In the United States and Canada, LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 lists for
- U.S. $450 for the single-user version and U.S. $1995 for the 10-user
- version. Both will be available through Novell's distribution
- channels. For pricing outside the United States and Canada, customers
- should contact their local Novell Authorized reseller. LAN WorkPlace
- for DOS customers wishing to upgrade to 4.0 may call 800-346-7177 or
- 801-429-5414.
-
- For ordering information concerning the LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS,
- phone 800-RED-WORD.
-
- -- brian
- ____________________________________________________________________________
- Brian Meek Novell, Inc. - 2180 Fortune Dr. San Jose, CA 95131
- Internet Mail: brian@novell.COM Phone: (408) 473-8375
-