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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Deskmate vs Novell
Message-ID: <1847@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 89 08:58:08 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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I picked up the new Deskmate a few months back. I decided it was too
blinkin' slow on my home machine and took it to work to try on my
Compaq Deskpro 286/12. 

Installation went fine. Then I tried to run it. The machine just "went away"
I had to reboot. After much experimentation I narrowed it down to this:

If I have the Novell Netware network shell (NET3.COM installed, the program
goes away. otherwise it runs. Note that I don't have to be logged on...

Anybody know what the *hell* is going on here? This has got to some sort
of major brain-damage in Deskmate. And if someone tells me that I need
to buy that "network companion" or whatever that workgroup package is
I'll be *very* upset. I neither need nor want *any* of it's features.

While I'm at it, I was rather upset to discover that Deskmate's graphics
package doesn't support Tandy's printer graphics. I know that all the
newer Tandy printers support Epson graphics, but if I wanted to buy
a new printer just to get Epson emulation, I'd buy an *Epson*! <sigh>
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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