NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:             How to Install Update and Patch Files
DOCUMENT ID:       TID014932
DOCUMENT REVISION: A
DATE:              10MAY94
ALERT STATUS:      Yellow
README FOR:        NA

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare Lite 1.1 for DOS & Windows
Novell DOS 7
PERSONAL NetWare 1.0

ABSTRACT:
This document gives instructions on how to install update and
patch files to existing installations of Novell Desktop Products.

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Novell makes update and patch files available for the Desktop
Systems Group line of products. To try and make installing these
files as easy as possible, Novell has encapsulated the update or
patch files in what is referred to as a self-contained or
self-extracting file.  This means that the .EXE file contains
many other files that can be "exploded" or "extracted" by
executing the file.

You should place the .EXE file into a temporary directory or into
a directory that technical support has indicated.  After doing
that, you should execute the file.  Executing the .EXE file will
result in having the .EXE file and the files included in it
present in the directory in which you executed it.

Each update or patch fileset has self-contained instructions on
how to install the update or patch files.  For example, the
current update fileset for NetWare Lite 1.1 is L11U05.EXE.  If a
file revision is made, the filename will increment to L11U06.EXE,
and so on.  This file contains all of the files necessary to
bring the NetWare Lite code current.  It also contains a text
file, in this case L11U05.TXT, that gives installation
instructions that can be read by any word processor or viewer
that allows for text conversion from ASCII or any ASCII text
editor.

After you have extracted the .EXE file, you should read the .TXT
file CAREFULLY so you can fully understand the steps necessary to
apply the update or patch files.  Following are two examples of
steps taken to apply update or patch files:

L11U05.EXE:  This file is the update to NetWare Lite 1.1.  It
             contains several files with a .PAT extension and
             one .TXT file.  To extract L11U05.EXE, execute it
             by typing L11U05 at the DOS prompt.



             You need to copy the *.PAT files into the \NWLITE
             directory on ALL machines on the network that run
             NetWare Lite 1.1.

             After copying these file, you need to run the
             UPATCH command from the C:\NWLITE directory.  This
             will apply the *.PAT files, or in other words, use
             the *.PAT files to update the NetWare Lite code.

             You can verify this process by typing UPATCH VERIFY
             at the C:\NWLITE prompt.

             NOTE:  These steps are explained in the L11U05.TXT
             file.

D70U02.EXE:  This file is used with Novell DOS 7.  It contains
             five files, four *.EXE files and one .TXT file.

             You should execute this file to extract the files
             included in this *.EXE file.

             Then, copy all the *.EXE files to the C:\NWDOS
             directory.  The files are replacements, not patch
             files.  NOTE:  These steps are explained in the
             D70U02.TXT file.

The installation of updates and patches are fairly
straightforward.  However, instructions do vary. Most
importantly, you should read the .TXT file after extracting the
.EXE file to make sure that you understand all instructions
before making the attempt to install.

If a temporary directory exists, you should use it to execute the
self-extracting file.  After the enclosed files have been
extracted, read the .TXT file and go from there.

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