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From: korn@Apple.COM (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: some practical AppleShare questions
Message-ID: <7535@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 2 Mar 88 09:17:30 GMT
References: <567@tnosel.UUCP>
Reply-To: korn@apple.UUCP (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Organization: Ungermann-Bass Enterprises
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In article <567@tnosel.UUCP> hvt@tnosel.UUCP (henq) writes:
>I manage some 15 macs at my work. We recently got a Mac II and AppleShare
>and laserShare and now I am trying to set it all up. But some questions
>remain, that are even to diffucult for the dealer.
>
>1.
>AppleShare came with system 4.1.
>LaserShare has system 3.3 (!) on its disk
>
>I want to use system 4.3 ('release 5.1' sigh...) troughout the network.
>
>How do I go about upgrading the start-up disks ??

One of the ideas behind the Installer is to install just what needs
installing, and no more unless desired.  You should be able to install
in any order (in general), and see no problems.

The way we do it on our AppleShare Servers and Workstations here at
Apple is to just use the latest System Disk installer, and install
the System & printer drivers over the AppleShare server and workstation disks.

Alternately, if you have a System 5.1 release disk that you want workstation
to be on, simply take out your Workstation Installer disk, and install *just* 
Workstation 1.1.  The same goes for Server.  However, I would recommend 
installing LaserShare after installing Server, this too probably won't make 
any difference.  Again, only install with the AppleShare and LaserShare
scripts when you are  going onto a disk that has a later system.

>Another A.S. topic:
>
>Are there already applications that are save to multiple-launch ?
>
>I set the 'Cached' bit of Word 3.01b for example, but that
>gave me the nr 26 granate on the second launch. Any help....

Strange...  I've had no trouble running Word 3.01 and 3.05 from 
multiple workstations off of 1 server.  Out of the box my copy came
with the 'Cached' bit set (which, for those out there unfamiliar with 
the wonders of ResEdit is *really* the MultiLaunch bit [find this, and
other goodies, in those Tech Notes we send out]).

I believe that Excel is also a Multi-Launch app.

Note:  simply setting the 'cached' bit of an application will NOT make
it multi-launch.  Your application must use the Open/Deny modes detailed
in InsideMac V in order for this to work properly.  Also in vol. V are
calls to do byte-range locking, etc., for multi-user databases.

Peter
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