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- TECHNICAL BULLETIN
- 2.26.90 PCTOOLS5 JCR (update 7.17.90)
- DISK UTILITY SOFTWARE: PC Tools Deluxe 5.5, Central Point Software
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- Installing PC Tools
- PC Tools can be installed on a server and shared across the network by the workstations. Using
- this configuration, however, an environment variable must be set to specify where PC Tools
- should put all user-specific files (PCSHELL.THM, PCSHELL.CFG, PCBACKUP.CFG, etc). This
- needs to be a directory that is unique for each user and to which the user has write privileges.
- This variable should be added to the workstation's autoexec.bat.....
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- SET PCTOOLS = drive: \path
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- Where drive is the drive letter and path is the full path where PC Tools should place its user-
- specific files. All of the currently linked network drives will show up with the local drives on the
- Drive Command Line. This will show only the active links.
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- NOTE: The customer must purchase a copy of PC Tools Deluxe for every station on the network
- or contact Central Point for a Network or Site License.
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- The compatibility testing was processed on a 3-node network. PC Tools was installed/configured
- on a common server (with environment variables set) during one set of tests, and again on all
- 3 nodes (without environment variables) during a second set of tests. The systems were running
- DOS 3.3 and DOS 4.01. I selected to load PC Cache, Mirror, PCShell and Desktop memory
- resident. PC TOOLS then made the following adjustments to the autoexec.bat file:
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- MIRROR C: /TC {To activate Mirror on drive C:
- PC-CACHE /IA /IB {Activates PC Cache
- PCSHELL /RT {To load PCShell TSR
- DESKTOP /R /CS {To load Desktop resident, uses 42064 bytes
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- PC BACKUP
- The command to load PC Backup is PCBACKUP - for a listing of configurations switches, please
- refer to the PC Tools Hard Disk Backup manual (p 6).
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- PC Backup does provide attribute exclusion / inclusion by configuration through the Options
- menu. PC Backup will backup all hidden/system/read only files when configured to do so; the
- default configuration does not backup hidden or system files. It will not backup the QCONTROL
- file in LANtastic. PCBackup will backup files onto and from a redirected drive with no problems.
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- FILE AND DISK RECOVERY
- The following commands in PC TOOLS are not compatible with a network environment:
- Compress, Rebuild, Mirror, Undelete. These commands handle direct physical access to the
- drive, which is not possible on a network drive.
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- PC SHELL
- The following commands in PCSHELL are not available on a network server or a network drive:
- Directory Maintenance, Prune and Graft, Directory Sort, Disk Info, Disk Map, File Map, Rename
- Volume, Search Disk, Undelete, Verify Disk, View/Edit Disk (Sector Editor).
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- To print from PCSHELL, a Ctrl-Alt-PrtScrn is required.
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- PC SHELL may be loaded in shell mode by typing PCSHELL at the prompt, or it may be loaded
- in TSR mode. PC Shell uses EMS (Expanded Memory) when it is resident and active only.
- When you hotkey into PC Shell, it will automatically load the PCSHELL.THM overlay file into
- expanded memory (LIM compatible), if available, to hold the image of the underlying application.
- If EMS memory is insufficient or non-existent, then the image is placed in PCSHELL.THM on disk.
- The amount of expanded memory required to run PCShell depends on how PCShell is loaded.
- If one loads PCShell with the TINY configuration (recommended), it will require approx 200KB of
- expanded memory.
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- To remove from memory, type KILL (Note: This will remove PCShell, Desktop and BackTalk if
- they are the last TSR utilities to be loaded).
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- When PC Shell is loaded in TSR mode, a configuration switch is required to determine the
- amount of memory PC Shell will take up. To load in TSR mode, select one of the following -
- additional switches are available to provide support for various configurations. For a list of those
- switches, please refer to the PC Tools Data Recovery and DOS Utilities manual. Don't forget to
- load this after the network! The hotkey to load PC Shell is Ctrl-Esc.
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- PCSHELL /RTINY - Uses 9K (recommended configuration)
- PCSHELL /RSMALL- Uses 70K
- PCSHELL /RMEDIUM- Uses 90K
- PCSHELL /RLARGE- Uses 170K
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- NOTE: PC Shell will work with different versions of DOS across the network. For example, one server can
- run DOS 3.3 while another runs DOS 4.01. PC Shell can access files on both across the network.
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- DESKTOP MANAGER
- The Desktop Manager can be loaded stand alone by typing DESKTOP at the prompt. It can also
- be loaded in TSR mode, by adding the /R switch and typing in DESKTOP /R. The hot key to load
- Desktop is Ctrl-Space. Just like PC Shell, Desktop uses EMS when it is resident and active only.
- It will load the DESKTOP.THM overlay file into expanded memory.
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- To remove from memory, type KILL (Note: This will remove PCShell, Desktop and BackTalk, if
- they are the last TSR utilities loaded).
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- Other switches are available to support various configurations. For a detailed list, please refer
- to the PC TOOLS Desktop Manager manual (pp 14).
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- PC SECURE
- NOTE: Due to USA federal regulations, PC Secure is shipped out of the U.S.A. with the
- encryption/decryption option disabled. The U.S.A. and non-U.S.A. versions of PC Secure are not
- compatible. You will NOT be able to decrypt a file with the U.S.A. version that was compressed
- with the non-U.S.A. version and vice-versa. PC Secure does work with the network. However,
- it's suggested never to place your decrypted files on a file server. Always copy the encrypted
- file to a private directory or local disk first, then decrypt it. For a list of configuration switches on
- PCSECURE, please refer to the PC Tools Data Recovery and DOS Utilities manual (p 197).
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- PC-CACHE
- PC-Cache should be installed after Mirror but before any other memory-resident programs.
- During one set of these tests, PC-Cache was loaded in the 640K memory and no problems were
- encountered. Due to various reports by our distributors and dealers indicating the product to
- be compatible, no further testing was done at this time. For a listing of configuration switches,
- please refer to the PC Tools Data Recovery and DOS Utilities manual (p 170).
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- To remove PC-Cache from memory, type PC-CACHE /UNLOAD.
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- Quick Reference
- Here are a few quick tips on operation of PC TOOLS DELUXE 5.5:
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- CTRL-X- Specifies which drive, X (from Drive Command Line), to work with (available in PC
- Tool and Compress)
- F10- Activates Menu Bar in PC Shell
- TAB- Moves between Tree and File List (available in PCShell)
- ALT-X- Pulls menu down from menu bar the option containing the highlighted X letter
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- Comments
- PC Tools Deluxe 5.5 has been tested in house with LANtastic NOS 2.57 and 3.00, and has been added to the
- compatibility list. Central Point Software has confirmed the content and accuracy of this document.
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- Vendor Info
- Central Point Software
- 15220 N.W. Greenbrier Parkway, #200
- Beaverton, OR 97006
- (503) 690-8090
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