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- Token-Ring Network utilities v0.2 June 20th, 1990
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- TRLIST Display most of the people on a multi-ring Token-Ring
- network using NETLIST's database NETLIST.NAM.
-
- TRSTAT Display status of the local primary adapter at the LLC
- level, all open SAPs and related link stations.
-
- CLOSESAP Close a SAP left open by TRLIST if something has gone
- wrong.
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- Those utilities don't use NetBIOS nor have anything to do with
- NETLIST, except that TRLIST uses the same database file (only
- the adapter number '\' entries, not name entries). NETLIST is
- in <MSDOS.LAN>NETLIS13.ZIP on Simtel20. You can made up a database
- by hand running TRSTAT on network machines if you don't have NetBIOS.
-
- They don't initialize nor open the adapter. How could they know
- the way your network software needs to have it configured ?
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- TRLIST needs one available SAP (but no link station) to work.
- TRSTAT can show how many SAPs are available. If you open the
- adapter with some NetBIOS program, in order to increase the
- number of additional SAPs that NETBIOS will allow when using
- IBM Adapter Support Program, put the ES=1 parameter on the
- dxmt0mod.sys line:
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- DEVICE=dxmT0mod.sys ES=1
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- If you already have an ES=something parameter and you can't run TRLIST,
- increase the value by one. No need to increase an EST=... parameter.
-
- Opening the adapter through NetBIOS is a good thing, because many
- parameters can then be adjusted through switches on the driver line
- in CONFIG.SYS, in case some additional resources are to be reserved
- for another, non NetBIOS-based, network programs. Read the DXMINFO.DOC
- file on the IBM T-R Adapter Support Program distribution diskette for
- a complete reference.
-
- Bugs
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-
- -- IBM Adapter Support Program (only dxmA0mod.sys and dxmC0mod.sys) is
- necessary.
-
- -- Hangs RSCS on our IBM 9377! If you have a Token-Ring card in your
- IBM 937x, don't put it in the database until this bug is fixed.
- In case you wonder how to get this address, it in always entered
- for the 3270 PC Emulation Program (and for the 3270 PC Communications
- too). Menu (a,b,z) choose b, then g. It is the destination address
- (i option), preceeded by 4000. So if you have 12345678 as we do (that
- is a user choosen address...), put the following line in NETLIST.NAM:
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- \400012345678 Our_six_million_IBM_machine
-
- Just for the future! Don't do that with the present version of TRLIST.
- That will show the IBM if run 5-6 times, then it will not show
- it anymore and you will discover that it is no more possible
- to connect yourself to the mainframe through the T-R.
-
- -- Doesn't detect people running only IBM TCPIP for DOS on Token-Ring.
-
- -- Doesn't show which SAP is which... There are two lists in TRSTAT display
- and I don't know how to make them correspond at the moment.
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