The biggest advantage of doing this is that, when new releases of Palstac are available, we can update the copy of Palstac on the network drive, and most of the staff will be running the latest release. In other words, our Windows 95 icons point at a copy of Palstac which resides on a network file server's hard drive. See question 3.1 for some observations on the performance implications of this configuration. One thing you'll need to consider when running Palstac on a LAN is how to allow each user to have their own individual copy of the pals.ini , Palstac configuration file. In the meantime, you might also want to check out a configuration we've been using at the St. Olaf Libraries, which allows us to multitask Palstac with Winsock applications.
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Doing so will stop this message from appearing. I don't know whether or not Palstac looks for a signal from a serial printer, so I can't say whether or not you might see this message if you have a serial printer which isn't connected or powered on. If you're using the OCLC optn redirector, then you should set the echo terminator to 10 . Gary Lundin suggested a simple test at the April '96 Systems Librarians User Group meeting. Do two consecutive time commands.