<<-- Best Viewed : Full Screen using monospace font -->> ================================================================= NetNotify The Newsletter for Network Professionals June 17th, 1996 - Volume 1. Edition 4 via FTP - ftp.netcent.com/netnotify/netno1-4.txt via CIS - GO NOVUSER - download netno1-4.txt ================================================================= You may (un)subscribe to NetNotify by sending a message to NETNOTIFY-REQUEST@KI.NET with the word (un)subscribe in your message. Vendors, PR Agencies and MARCOM personnel with important information to get out to the masses should direct inquiries to NETNOTIFY-MARKETING@NETCENT.COM. ================================================================= ------------------------ Still Scratching My Head ------------------------ Every so often someone says something that just floors me. Sometimes, I chalk it up as a close encounter of the BDU kind. Others can be just too difficult to pass up. You know what I mean. The ones that you read once, then twice, trying to figure out what planet the person came from. Last week I was speaking with a couple gents from the planet Venus. High level execs in two VERY large organizations in the networking industry. Hot companies, hot planet. The purpose of the discussions: to get these two companies on-board with NetNotify. It's really a very simple process you see. Vendors send listings of new patches/fixes to a central location, then presto, out the door it goes. After much discussion, the results still have me scratching my head. Although the comments varied slightly between the two residents of Venus, the first comment really sums it up: "Why would one of our clients want this? We post information about file updates on our web site. If they want details on new patches for our products, all they have to do is visit the site." Bueller.. Bueller.. Has anyone seen Bueller? After getting out of the hospital earlier this week (major concussion from banging my head against the wall), discussions resumed. As it stands right now, our friends from Venus will consider participation, but there's a catch. Somehow, I must prove that administrators and consultants don't actually have the time to surf sites high and low each week looking for new patch and promo information. To this end, I'm looking for feedback from the notified ones. Do you like the publication? Does it provide VALUE to you? And, most importantly, do you think it's in the vendors best interest to participate? If you can, please take a few minutes to jot down your feelings on this issue and fire them off to netnotify- marketing@netcent.com. `Nuff said, on with the show! ======================= What's In This Edition? ======================= Patches and Fixes o NetWare Clients o NetWare Connect o NetWare Operating Systems o Novell GroupWise o Novell MultiProtocol Router o Adaptec o Compaq General News and Tidbits o NetWare Century Fix Coming for Year End o Three More Viruses to Keep you Company o New Conferences on CompuServe o So Long NOVHW o Watch the Wires For Hayes Modem Upgrades o CompuServe Gets Explored o Free Newsletter About Internet Resources Education, Seminars and Conferences o Visual Basic 4.0 Assessment Exam A Stone's Throw Away o And Another Certification Hits the Streets New Products o You, Me and XTD Promotions and Price Slashing o Improve Your Messaging Backbone and Save! The Winners Circle - Current Contests o Contest - Win COLD CA$H Getting In Touch with Us ================= Patches and Fixes ================= Before jumping into the latest listing of patches, some news and general information. A few requests have come in for longer descriptions of each patch listed in NetNotify. Although we would love to accommodate these requests, at this time it's just not possible. Descriptions provided are based on the summaries available from the various vendors. We are working with several vendors to get more descriptive summaries listed, but until that time, we're doing the best we can with what we are given. To expand on our patches and fixes coverage, a handy new robot is almost ready for prime time. This `bot will allow us to cover an even greater number of vendors automatically. Unfortunately, there is virtually no consistency between vendor FTP sites. If all continues according to planned, the robot will be churning away for the next edition with coverage starting for Novell,Adaptec and Compaq patches. From there, we'll be expanding with a minimum of two new vendors each week. Once the `bot is running at full steam, we will no longer be providing references to forums on CompuServe. Listings will refer to FTP sites and directories only. That said, time to get patched with the following listing of new releases since the last edition of NetNotify. --------------- NetWare Clients --------------- NPTR95.EXE Description- OPEN BETA REFRESH Nprinter for Win95 CompuServe - GO NWOSFILES FTP - ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/nwos/nc32w952/ --------------- NetWare Connect --------------- NWC203.EXE Description- NetWare Connect 2 Maintenance. You must download NWC204 and NWC205 as well. CompuServe - GO NWGENFILES FTP - ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/dial/nwc2/ NWC2TP.TXT Description- NetWare Connect Technical Tips CompuServe - GO NWGENFILES FTP - ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/dial/nwc2/ ------------------------- NetWare Operating Systems ------------------------- SMSUP5.EXE Description- Current SMS files for NetWare 3.11, 3.11 SFT III, 3.12, and 4.XX. These SMS files are compatible with SBACKUP and associated modules currently available in SBACK5.EXE (or later) on CompuServe. CompuServe - GO NWOSFILES FTP - ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/nwos// CDUP3.EXE Description- Latest CDROM.NLM and supporting files for NetWare 3.12 and 4.1. Includes support for IDE cdrom devices. CompuServe - GO NWOSFILES FTP - ftp.novell.com/pub/updates/nwos/