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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:01:00 EST
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From:         "J.Lance Wilkinson, (814) 865-1818" <JLW@PSULIAS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: WP5.1 on Netware 3.11
X-To:         U41602@UICVM.UIC.EDU, WP50-L@PSULIAS.BITNET

On 21-JUL-1992 00:34, Rich Chong <U41602@UICVM.UIC.EDU> asked,
RE: WP5.1 on Netware3.11
>We are upgrading a bunch of PCs (around 20) from standalone, to
>a Novell LAN. Each of the PCs is licensed for WordPerfect5.1.
>I understand that there are usage problems with just coping a
>single-user version to a public directory. Is there a cheap upgrade
>option for the LAN version of WP51? or an easy (and legal) workaround?
>Other ideas? Thanks.    r

If you *really* want PCs licensed for individual copies of WP to get their
copy off of a network server, log on as supervisor on that server and do a
new install from the release disks of WP5.1, specify Custom instead of Basic
installation, and you'll see NETWORK installation as one of the options under
there.  I think it should be straightforward after that; I did the network
installation of DrawPerfect 1.1 without the manual in hand, just following the
prompts, so WordPerfect 5.1 should be pretty much the same.

I support a 32-license WP shop, and we have Netware 3.11, but I chose *not*
to have them get WordPerfect off of the server.  They still use the Netware
printer services, and can certainly use the /D= option to direct scratch files
and the like over the network (network drives tend to be faster access than
local PS/2 hard drives for scratch files, etc.).  Why did I do this?

        1) WP 5.1 was already installed on these systems when Netware was
                added.  What isn't broken doesn't need to be fixed.
        2) We're primarily programmers here, and traditionally when the
                computer is down, programmers write documentation (alright,
                maybe they make paper airplanes and gather around the coffee
                machine, but *officially* they're supposed to be writing
                documentation ;-).  But when one writes documentation using
                WordPerfect, the computer *network* happens to be down (so far
                this hasn't happened, but it could), and your only access to
                WordPerfect is through the server on the network rather than
                your local hard disk, then you're back to making paper
                airplanes and gathering around the coffee machine....

I recommend you really examine anticipated usage before committing what is
probably a major accessibilty resource, to which your users are already very
used to having nearby, on the network server *instead* of on their hard disks.
Of course, if you're moving *everything* to the server, with WordPerfect being
only a small representative sample of what's being centralized, then by all
means move WP also.  I would, for example, put WP on the server & *delete it*
from the users' individual hard disks, if I were moving DOS over to the server,
too...

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