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From: chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: LANspace and LANspool for Novell networks
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Date: 19 Oct 89 14:23:00 GMT
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We have been using LanSpool for a while now, and it seems to be very robust.
Although the program claims to run in a non-dedicated mode, we are using
it on a dedicated workstation at a location well-removed from the file
server itself.  

You could check the following, but I believe it is true:  you can run
PCONSOLE from within LanSpool (in this dedicated scenario), but during this
time, printing will pause.  Jobs will continue to queue up on the file
server, but printing will not resume till PCONSOLE is exited.  When we 
first put in LanSpool, consultants would run PCONSOLE to look at the
queue; printing would stop, and they wouldn't know why.

By the way, jobs are ALWAYS spooled to the file server with this product,
not the the LanSpool workstation.

We are pleased with the product.

 -- Gary Chapman
    Microcomputer Networks Manager
    Academic Computing Facility, New York University

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From: chapman@acf4.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman)
Date: 19 Oct 89 10:26 EDT
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Subject: Re: LANspace and LANspool for Novell networks
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LanSpace requires EXTENDED memory, and does not utilize expanded memory.  
We were annoyed to find that a bunch of 1 megabyte Zenith 286LP machines
we have do NOT have extended memory, but rather 256K of expanded memory.

Upshot: don't assume your workstations have extended memory just because
        they claim to be AT-class machines.

 - Gary Chapman
   Microcomputer Networks Manager
   Academic Computing Facility, New York University