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- TECHNICAL BULLETIN
- 04.25.90 MACOL401 JCR (updated 8.13.90)
- ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE: Macola 3.13/4.01, Macola Inc.
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- Installing Macola
- Install the System Manager (S/M) using the install program found on the Installation Utility disk. Insert the
- disk in floppy drive and at the floppy drive prompt, run INSTALL. The system will then prompt you for
- installation parameters - such as the drive designation you are installing from and to. The next menu will
- provide a selection for installing Macola products; for the first time installation select #1 to install S/M.
- Follow the prompts to insert the S/M disks.
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- After the S/M has been installed, you may install other Macola products by selecting item #2 on that menu.
- If you are installing a "live" version of Macola and the install process did not prompt for a Registration Disk,
- you may select item #6 from this menu to install that disk. NOTE: This installation should be done on the
- server, to a physical device (ie C or D) designation.
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- Configuration
- During the installation, all files are configured within a \MACOLA directory. You should now create a
- resource on the Server for this directory, with the physical link path of X:\MACOLA (where X: is the physical
- drive designation, C: or D: that Macola was installed on). That resource should have default privileges. Log
- into the Server, share the Macola resource, and from the redirected drive issue a MACOLA X command to
- load Macola, where X is either C for color monitor or M for monochrome monitor.
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- From the menu, select F3 FILE UTILITIES and select item #3 Company File Maintenance. The system will
- then prompt you for configuration information. On item #7 Version, select F DOS 3.x Network Full (this
- includes print spooling, file and record locking). Follow the prompts and respond accordingly (Y/N) to all
- other Macola products installed. The system will then prompt you for SYSTEM UTILITIES and PRINT
- SPOOLING DEFAULTS information. For our in house testing, the default was selected on all options with
- the following exceptions/ notes:
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- 1. We recommend to tell Macola NOT to spool reports to disk; they should be spooled directly
- to the printer (in this case, LANtastic will redirect those reports through the printer spooler).
- 2. Tell Macola that the reports should be spooled to a network printer.
- 3. The number of local printers and the default local printer # did not have an effect on the
- function of printing through Macola. We selected 3 local printers and tried a variety of default
- printers. The printer codes tested were #1, no printer fonts defined, #2, Epson Compressed.
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- Hardware Requirements
- Macola does not require a large number set for FILES= and BUFFERS= in the config.sys file. Their initial
- recommendation is FILES=50, BUFFERS=30.
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- Once Macola has been installed and configured, the server user or any other node may log into the server,
- share the server's root drive and any necessary printing devices, and run Macola from the redirected drive.
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- Avoiding Problems
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- Network Operation
- If you are experiencing difficulties running Macola with LANtastic, check to make sure that Macola has been
- installed for F (DOS 3.X Network-Full).
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- Check the version of Macola running, it should be either 3.13 or 4.01. Macola 4.00 does not work properly
- with LANtastic. If you are running 4.00, contact Macola for an upgrade to 4.01.
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- Printing Problems
- If the system is not printing, make sure the user has net used the appropriate printing device, make sure that
- user is spooling printing requests to a network printer instead of to disk (refer to Macola configuration above),
- and check the network printer timeout. At the DOS prompt, the command NET SHOW will display that
- workstation status. If the value of the printer timeout is 0, assign a new timeout by entering the following
- command: NET LPT TIMEOUT 10 (Where 10 is the actual number of seconds before the timeout occurs.
- The value may be decreased or increased according to print job length. A value of 10 seconds was sufficient
- during in house testing with Macola). This command must be entered on each workstation which will print
- across the network, and may be added to the initial start up batch file which loads your network drivers. Please
- refer to your network documentation for more information on printer timeout.
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- Comments
- Macola 3.13 and 4.01 have been tested in house with the LANtastic NOS 2.57 and 3.0, and have been added
- to our compatibility list. Macola 4.00 has been tested in house as incompatible with LANtastic NOS 2.57 and
- 3.00 and has been added to our list as incompatible. Macola has confirmed the content and accuracy of this
- document.
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- Vendor Info
- Macola
- 333 East Center Street
- PO Box 485
- Marion, OH 43301
- (614) 382-5999
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