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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Office Mail broke in Starlan 3.3a
Message-ID: <13966@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 14:47:45 GMT
References: <418@pallas.athenanet.com>
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In article <418@pallas.athenanet.com> lbert359@athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli) writes:
>
>When converting from Starlan 3.2 to 3.3a at one of my clients, WordPerfect
>Office Mail version 2.0 went belly-up.  Although WordPerfect claims
>that 2.0 is qualified with all versions of Starlan, this particular program
>simply will not work.  When attempting to send mail from one user to another,
>the mail program creates the appropriate hidden files in the mail\\bin and lin
>directories, and updates the appropriate sys files.  After creating the hidden
>files, mail seem unable to find them (I guess they are *really* hidden :-).
>

AT&T's StarGROUP 3.3 is *just* Microsoft's LAN Manager 1.1. The server is 
running under Unix instead of OS/2, and uses the same Netbios interface as
all the other Lan Manager vendors.

You might see if Wordperfect has and fixes/patches for Lan Manager and apply
those.

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