PW-W95 PWW95UNS PATHWORKS for Windows 95 V1.0A Unsup Utilities ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996, 1997. All rights reserved.
PRODUCT: PATHWORKS for DOS and Windows, Version 6.0
COMPONENT: Unsupported Utilities for PATHWORKS for Windows 95,
Version 1.0A
OP/SYS: Windows 95
SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: PWW95UNS
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: PW95NSUP
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 792 Blocks (OpenVMS)
405475 Bytes (MS-DOS)
System Reboot Necessary: No
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
This kit contains various UNSUPPORTED utilities for PATHWORKS for
Windows 95 V1.0A as described below and in the readme file AAREADME.TXT
contained within PWW95UNS.EXE. These utilities are provided on an
"AS IS" basis.
NDIS 2.0 Network Address Driver (DECND20.DOS)
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Description
This driver allows DECnet to be used with NDIS 2.0 (real mode)
drivers that do not support the NetAddress keyword in
PROTOCOL.INI. It is useful if your NDIS 3.x (protected mode)
driver does not support the NetworkAddress and you have an NDIS
2.0 driver available.
It will change the station address to an address of the form
AA-00-04-00-xx-yy where xx-yy represents your DECnet node
address.
Installation
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Network->Add->Protocol->
Add->Have Disk
Enter the location of the 'PATHWORKS for Windows 95 Unsupported
Kit' and select 'NDIS 2.0 NetAddress Driver [Unsupported]'.
After completing the installation and rebooting, you will have
to run the PATHWORKS for Windows 95 SETUP utility again to
correctly configure the network address. This will add the
NETADDRESS keyword to the DECND20 section of PROTOCOL.INI.
PATHWORKS Datalink Mapper (DECDLL.VXD)
======================================
Description
This driver provides limited emulation of the PATHWORKS datalink
interface for MS-DOS applications to allow customer developed
applications to work with Windows 95. The datalink interface
emulated is documented in the PATHWORKS 5.1 SDK.
Please note that this is for migration and backwards
compatibility with previous versions of PATHWORKS. There is
no guarantee that the datalink mapper and old interface will
continue to work in future versions of PATHWORKS for Windows 95.
Installation
Using the Windows 95 Explorer, browse to the location of the
unsupported disk files.
Right click on the DECDLL.INF file, and select "Install".
Removal
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs
Select PATHWORKS Datalink Mapper [Unsupported]
Click "Add/Remove..."
NetBIOS LANA Utility (DECLANA.VXD, DECLANA.CPL, LANA.EXE, USE.EXE)
==================================================================
Description
This driver will allow you to control which NetBIOS providers
(LANA numbers) are used by Win16 and Win32 applications and
which transports are used for file and print service
connections. It will also provide system statistics for the
Windows 95 System Monitor for each NetBIOS provider installed.
After installation there will be a new Control Panel application
called the "PATHWORKS NetBIOS LANA Utility." This control panel
is used to enable and disable LANAs and to set the delay factor
for each LANA. To change the characteristics of a LANA, right
click on a specific line and chose properties.
The installation also copies LANA.EXE and USE.EXE to your
Windows Command directory. These are MS-DOS applications that
communicate with DECLANA to control LANA usage.
The USE utility is identical to the PATHWORKS for DOS and
Windows version, but includes a /LANA switch. This can be added
to a connection line to specify which LANA should be used for
the connection:
USE X: \\LANMGR\PWW95V10/LANA=1
You can determine LANA assignments using USE/STATUS which will
include information similar to the following:
...
Redirector: Version 4.00 (Windows 95)
NetBIOS LANA 0: Version 2.2 (NetBEUI)
NetBIOS LANA 1: Version 2.1 (DECnet)
NetBIOS LANA 7: Version 3.0 (TCP/IP)
...
The LANA utility is used to control which LANAs are visible to
applications. When run without any command line parameters, it
displays a list of all LANAs and whether they are on, off or
not present:
LANA 0: OK, no delay
LANA 1: OK, no delay
LANA 2: Not installed
LANA 3: Not installed
LANA 4: Not installed
LANA 5: Not installed
LANA 6: Not installed
LANA 7: OK, no delay
Individual LANAs can be changed using the syntax:
LANA
LANA Delays
Windows 95 does not provide a mechanism to specify the priority
for different NetBIOS providers. In some cases, this results
in a transport being used (such as NetBEUI) because it completes
the NetBIOS CALL first even though DECnet would be the preferred
transport. By specifying a small delay (500-2000ms) for the
NetBEUI LANA, connections will be made over DECnet first. Note
that this only applies to the NetBIOS CALL function and will not
reduce performance for any other NetBIOS function.
Installation
Using the Windows 95 Explorer, browse to the location of the
unsupported disk files. Right click on the DECLANA.INF file,
and select "Install". Reboot for the install to complete.
Removal
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs
Select PATHWORKS NetBIOS LANA Utility [Unsupported]
Click "Add/Remove..."
DECnet Node Database Conversion Utility (NM_5TO4.EXE)
=====================================================
Description
This is a DOS utility that will create PATHWORKS 4.x database
files (DECNODE.DAT and DECALIAS.DAT) from the PATHWORKS 5.x
database file (PWNODE.DAT).
PATHWORKS for Windows 95 only maintains the new database files,
but some older DECnet applications may still look in the 4.x
databases. If this occurs, you may see messages like 'Remote
node is unknown' or 'Node name not defined' even though the
node appears to be defined correctly when checked with NCP or
the DECnet properties.
NM_5TO4 will generate 4.x versions of the database files that
match the current contents of the 5.x databases. NM_5TO4 takes
no command line parameters and automatically creates databases
in the same location as the PATHWORKS 5.x PWNODE.DAT file.
Note: Information in existing 4.x database files will be lost
after running NM_5TO4.
There is also the NMCVT.EXE utility included in \SDK\PW\BIN on
the PATHWORKS for Windows 95 kit. This utility performs the
reverse function of NM_5TO4; it converts 4.x database files to
5.x database files and is primarily used during migration from
earlier PATHWORKS releases.
Installation
Copy the NM_5TO4.EXE utility to your PATHWORKS directory so
it is available in your path.
PATHWORKS Mail Autosort Extension (AUTOSORT\*.*)
================================================
Description
This extension to Microsoft Exchange enables you to
automatically sort incoming mail based on the From and
Subject fields of a mail message.
There are two interfaces to the Autosort extension:
1. Right click on any folder. This allows you to add or
remove users (the From field).
2. Exchange->Tools->Options. This allows you to view all of
the Autosort settings and what folders that are associated
with.
The sorting is done by comparing the From and Subject fields
with the text provided by you. If the text matches any part
of the string in the corresponding field, then that mail message
is delivered to the folder. All mail messages are left in the
unread state so the folder name will change from normal, to bold
when a new mail message is delivered into it.
Installation
Using the Windows 95 Explorer, browse to the location of the
unsupported disk files.
Right click on the AUTOSORT.INF file, and select "Install".
Removal
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs
Select PATHWORKS Mail Autosort Extension [Unsupported]
Click "Add/Remove..."
PATHWORKS Mail Transport Provider for Microsoft Exchange (PWMAIL\*.*)
=====================================================================
Description
This transport provider provides access to the "New Mail" folder
on PATHWORKS for VMS servers running DECnet. When the new mail
is copied to the client, a copy remains on the server in the
"Mail" folder. The provider does not provide access to other
remote mail folders.
When using Exchange, you should not use VMSMail or the PATHWORKS
for DOS and Windows Mail to access the same account or the new
mail count will be inaccurate. However, you will not lose mail
under these circumstances.
Installation
If you are currently running Exchange, exit before installing
the PATHWORKS Mail Transport Provider.
Using the Windows 95 Explorer, browse to the location of the
unsupported disk files.
Right click on the PWMAIL.INF file, and select "Install".
Start Exchange.
Select Tools->Services->Add->PATHWORKS Mail Transport.
Enter the required information.
Removal
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs
Select PATHWORKS Mail Transport Provider [Unsupported]
Click "Add/Remove..."
Windows 95 LK450 Drivers (KBD*.DLL, KEYBOARD.INF, LK450.DRV)
============================================================
Description
These are the WFW 3.11 LK450 Keyboard drivers adapted to
install on a Windows 95 system. The drivers are not native
32 bit device drivers. This should not be a big issue, as
the native Keyboard.drv on Windows 95 appears to be a 16 bit
driver as well.
Installation
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Keyboard->General->Change->
Have Disk
Enter the location of the Unsupported LK450 Drivers Kit and
select desired keyboard driver/layout (ie. United States LK450).
INSTALLATION NOTES:
This patch kit contains a PC based file in a self-extracting format.
1. Copy PWW95UNS.EXE onto your PC into an empty directory.
2. Expand PWW95UNS.EXE. For example,
C:\TMP>PWW95UNS.EXE -d
This will expand the file into its individual components with the
directory structure intact and place them in the C:\TMP directory.
NOTE: The -d switch is used to preserve the directory structure
(-d MUST BE LOWER CASE).
3. See AAREADME.TXT in the root (\) directory for the Unsupported
Utilities installation instructions.
NOTE: If you have previously installed any of the unsupported
utilities, you should remove them and delete any associated files
before installing the new versions. These versions of the tools
support the Windows 95 Add/Remove Software feature (with the
exception of the LK450 drivers) to make future updates easier.
This patch can be found at any of these sites:
Colorado Site
Georgia Site
European Site
Files on this server are as follows:
pww95uns.README
pww95uns.CHKSUM
pww95uns.CVRLET_TXT
pww95uns.exe
