Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!rutgers!mcdchg!usenet From: brian@xlnvax.novell.com (Brian Meek) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Subject: Novell Announces new LAN WorkPlace for DOS Message-ID: <57290@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> Date: 25 Feb 91 18:28:40 GMT Sender: usenet@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com Followup-To: poster Lines: 212 Approved: usenet@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com This is a modified version of the official Novell press release concerning the LAN WorkPlace for DOS version 4.0. Marketing rhetoric has been toned down, while technical content has been beefed up for this posting to comp.newprod. There is not, as of yet, an official mechanism at Novell for receiving product inquiries via Internet mail. If you submit follow-up questions to me via electronic mail, I can't promise that they will get a prompt response since I will be attending NetWorld in Boston until February 18th. For more information phone 800-LAN-KIND from the United States or 801-379-0775 from outside the U.S. Brian Meek - 02/08/1991 -- NOVELL ANNOUNCES NEW LAN WorkPlace for DOS Hardware-Independent TCP/IP Networking Software Links DOS and Windows Clients With Enterprise-Wide Information Systems BOSTON, Mass., NETWORLD -- February 11, 1991 -- Novell, Inc., developer of NetWare systems software products, today announced a new, hardware and media-independent version of LAN WorkPlace for DOS connectivity software, which provides DOS and Windows users with direct, concurrent access to UNIX systems, DEC VAX minicomputers, IBM mainframes and NetWare servers, via the industry-standard TCP/IP protocol suite. Hardware and media-independence allow LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 to operate with common Ethernet, Token-Ring and Arcnet adapters. Ring and Arcnet adapters. The product also lets users maintain simultaneous sessions in, and move data among, a variety of computing environments. For example, users can cut and paste between a UNIX mail message and a DOS-based word processing document. "Many customers have asked for a fully supported TCP/IP implementation that leverages their existing hardware and integrates TCP/IP services with the NetWare environment," said Bob Davis, director of product marketing at Novell's San Jose development center. "LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 gives users full citizenship in a variety of computing environments, and allows them direct access to the broad range of services typical of today's multi-vendor networks." LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 is based on an optimized TCP/IP protocol stack designed by Novell to provide DOS and/or Windows users with high- performance TCP/IP connectivity while consuming a minimum of system memory. The TCP/IP transport facilities are augmented by two full sets of new applications that provide File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and terminal emulation (Telnet) services for both Windows and the conventional DOS environments. LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 also allows NetWare clients to connect directly to NetWare v3.11 servers that are accessible only via TCP/IP routes, or to coexist with NetWare v3.11 servers in an environment where only TCP/IP transport protocols are to be used. The TCP/IP in LAN WorkPlace provides a stable platform for a variety of products from leading software vendors. Implementations of X-Windows, TN-3270, NFS Client and SQL Database services are available. Developers wishing to write DOS and Windows applications that use TCP/IP in a NetWare environment will want to purchase the developer's version of LAN WorkPlace: LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS. -- Windows 3.0 TCP/IP Service Applications -- -o- Host Presenter -- provides up to ten simultaneous Telnet session windows (emulating a VT220, VT52 or VT100 terminal) to multiple TCP/IP-equipped hosts. Most international keyboards and character sets are supported. Includes an extensive script language. -o- Serving FTP -- a Windows-based "FTP daemon" that runs in the background under Windows, waiting for an FTP user to establish a connection with the PC and initiate file transfers to or from local disk drives or NetWare volumes. -o- File Express -- provides a graphical front-end that makes FTP file transfer between NetWare, DOS, Unix and other file systems simple and intuitive. Features include recursive directory copies, copies between two remote hosts, remote file-find by wild card and direct printing of remote files to Windows printers. -- Conventional DOS TCP/IP Service Applications -- -o- TNVT220 is a DEC series terminal emulator for Telnet that supports up to 10 simultaneous sessions. TNVT220's keyboard usage is user definable, and it supports most international keyboards and character sets using DOS 3.3 language-specific code pages. -o- TelAPI (Telnet API) provides a "Telnet Engine" for LAN WorkPlace and 3rd party terminal emulators. Off-the-shelf communication programs supporting BAPI, EtherTerm, Int14, Extended Int14 or the NETCI LAN communication interfaces can utilize Telnet connections via TelAPI. Note: TelAPI-specific programming extensions for establishing connections and Telnet option negotiation are documented in the LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS. -o- Telnet Session Utility (TSU) is included to establish Telnet connections and perform Telnet option negotiation for terminal emulators designed to use any of TelAPI's standard LAN communication interfaces. TSU can be invoked using command-line options from a batch file, or can be used interactively in menu mode. -o- R-Utilities - rsh (remote shell) and rexec (remote execute) for remote command execution, rcp (remote copy) copies files between NetWare, DOS and UNIX file systems, rpr (remote print) sends files to remote hosts for printing. -o- FTP, FTPd, TFTP, TFTPd - Traditional FTP command-line interface. FTP and TFTP client applications can be invoked using batch and script files. -o- All conventional DOS applications operate correctly in multitasking environments such as DESQview and Windows v3.0 due to the fully reentrant TCP/IP stack. -- TCP/IP Transport utilities / drivers -- -o- Netstat (can query remote LAN WorkPlace TCP/IP protocol stacks as well as that of the local host) and Ping. -o- IPTunnel driver. This ODI Multiple Link Interface Driver (MLID) encapsulates IPX datagrams in UDP/IP packets. Use of this driver allows a DOS-based NetWare client to attach to one or more NetWare servers that are accessible only through an IP internet. The target server must be either a NetWare v3.11 server with the IPTUNNEL.LAN driver installed (a standard feature of NetWare v3.11) or a NetWare 2.x server with Schneider & Koch's SK-IPX/IP Gateway product installed (the SK-IPX/IP gateway can also be installed in a NetWare external IPX router). -o- Convert (enables the use of applications written to prior LAN WorkPlace releases). -o- NetBIOS session layer. A Broadcast-Node implementation of NetBIOS Service Protocol on TCP/IP - RFCs 1001, 1002. -- RAM usage of DOS ODI, TCP/IP and related drivers -- Drivers are listed in the approximate order in which they are loaded. Driver Description Default Size Size Range TSR name (Approximate size in KB.) ------ ----------- ------------ ------------- LSL.COM Link Support Layer 19.5 4 - 30 NE2000.COM Board specific driver 3.8 Varies with NIC TCPIP.EXE TCP/IP protocol stack 19 12 - 26 IPTUNNEL.EXE Software MLID IPXonIP 2.4 n/a IPXODI.COM NetWare SPX/IPX stack 14 9 - 14 ???NET?.COM NetWare Shell 7 - 43 7KB with XMS/EMS TELAPI.EXE TelAPI (Telnet API) 21 17 - 33 All ODI LAN drivers, protocol stacks, and NetWare drivers operate correctly when loaded in high memory regions using 386 memory managers such as QEMM-386. All can be sequentially unloaded from RAM without having to reboot. LAN hardware drivers for the following boards are currently included with LAN WorkPlace for DOS: -o- Ethernet -- Novell -- NE-1000, NE-2000, NE/2, NE/2-32, EXOS 205T, EXOS 215T 3Com -- 3C501, 3C503, 3C505, 3C523 -o- ARCnet -- Novell -- RX-Net, Turbo RX-Net -o- Token-Ring IBM Token-Ring Adapter I or II (direct to hardware) IBM Token-Ring via IBM LAN Support. Check with your LAN hardware vendor for availability of ODI drivers for DOS. -- LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS -- LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS is a super-set of the LAN WorkPlace for DOS package. It is available to developers who wish to write applications for DOS and Microsoft Windows 3.0 that use TCP/IP and work reliably in a NetWare environment. The following programmatic inferfaces are supported: -o- Socket Library. Conforms to the Berkeley socket interface model and is current with the 4.3 Berkeley Software Distribution. Up to 64 TCP sockets and 32 UDP sockets can be established concurrently. Socket Libraries are included for both conventional DOS programming and for Windows programming to the WSOCKET.DLL included with LAN WorkPlace. -o- TelAPI (Telnet API) The toolkit includes programmer's documentation for the TelAPI component of the end-user and developer packages. -o- NetBIOS (NetBIOS Service Protocol on TCP/IP) - RFCs 1001, 1002. The toolkit includes programmer's documentation for the NetBIOS component of the end-user and developer packages. -- Pricing and Availability -- In the United States and Canada, LAN WorkPlace for DOS 4.0 lists for U.S. $450 for the single-user version and U.S. $1995 for the 10-user version. Both will be available through Novell's distribution channels. For pricing outside the United States and Canada, customers should contact their local Novell Authorized reseller. LAN WorkPlace for DOS customers wishing to upgrade to 4.0 may call 800-346-7177 or 801-429-5414. For ordering information concerning the LAN WorkPlace Toolkit for DOS, phone 800-RED-WORD. Special educational pricing is available, please contact Janet Perry at 415-975-4480 or send mail to janetp@novell.com. -- Brian Meek Novell, Inc. - 2180 Fortune Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 Internet Mail: brian@novell.COM Phone: (408) 473-8375 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com