
              NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              This File Contains OS/2 Utilities
DOCUMENT ID:        TID021889
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               25JAN95
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         OS2UTP.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare Client for OS/2 2.11

ABSTRACT:

This file contains updated OS/2 utilities for NetWare 3.12 and NetWare v4.02.
The updated utilites are to be used with NetWare Client for OS/2 v2.11. Also
included is an OS/2 PM version of Rconsole. These utilities have not been
submitted to Novell system test. (Changed text info and SEND.EXE)

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3X Patches and fixes:

SYMPTOM

LOGIN.EXE did not correctly pass login environment variables to spawned
processes.  For example, if a CMD file was called from the login script, the
CMD file could not make use of variables that had been set in the login
script.

SOLUTION

Apply LOGIN.EXE  138784 bytes, 6-01-94 & LOGIN.MSG  12086 bytes, 4-13-94. This
is a 4.X utility and can be used in a 3.X enviorment to solve the above
symptom.

SYMPTOM

Versions of OS/2 NCOPY prior to this patch would cause extended attribute
corruption and also would fail to release resources back to the alloc short
term memory pool on v3.x NetWare servers.

Prior versions of DOS NCOPY would fail to process extended attribute
information correclty.

SOLUTION

For OS/2 apply NCOPY.EXE  67008 bytes, 11-03-93.
For DOS apply NCOPY.DOS  249555 bytes,  10-28-93.
(Rename NCOPY.DOS to NCOPY.EXE and copy to sys:public)
For both DOS & OS/2 use NCOPY.MSG
This is a 4.X utility and can be used in a 3.X enviorment to solve the above
symptom.

SYMPTOM

A problem was identified when the last PC to login, or PC with the highest
connection slot to the NetWare server, was an OS/2 PC and a message is sent
with the SEND.EXE utility to a group of which this OS/2 PC was a member. 
Under these circumstances the message is sent to all members of the group but
then SEND.EXE continues to try and send the message to all the remaining
un-used connections on the NetWare server generating an error for each un-used
connection.  The included versions of SEND.EXE should resolve this problem.

SOLUTION

For OS/2 apply SEND.OS2    17790  1-06-95  5:36p
For DOS apply SEND.DOS    34512  1-06-95  5:33p
(Rename SEND.DOS to SEND.EXE and copy to sys:public)


SYMPTOM

SYSCON.EXE resolves a problem with earlier SYSCON, when creating a User home
directory. Error:  "SetDrivePath returned error -30717".  Version 3.77 of
Syscon will generate a SYS1811:  Trap 000d if you delete a user ID that is
logged in.

SOLUTION

Apply SYSCON.EXE, 273468 bytes,  08-22-94.


SYMPTOM

The included version of CAPTURE.3X addresses issues of running login.exe from
a CALL statement in the OS/2 config.sys and hanging if a #capture existed in
the OS/2 login script.   This problem occurs with the CAPTURE.EXE that ships
with NetWare 3.1x, including CAPTURE.EXE v3.75, dated 5-20-93, that ships with
NetWare 3.12. 

SOLUTION

Apply CAPTURE.EXE, 37103 bytes, 1-22-91. This version of capture should NOT be
used with 4.X NetWare. 



4X patches and fixes:

SYMPTOM

Error: CAPTURE-4.03-700: The mode, <MODE> of device, <DEVICE>, cannot be found
in the PRINTDEF database.  Either specify a valid mode or create a new mode
with the specified name. This occurs when using an NDS queue object that is
set up to redirect a print job through the 4.x queue object to a 3.x print
server queue. To duplicate the error you need to define and use a Device and
Mode. This occured with capture.exe 5-05-94 that shipped with NetWare v4.02.

SOLUTION

Apply CAPTURE.EXE, 105149 bytes,  09-02-94 and CAPTURE.MSG, 30953 bytes,
05-05-94.  (See Installation Instructions)


SYMPTOM

Using CX before logging in will return the following errors:

 SYS3175: A program generated an access violation at 0001:09f5 CX.EXE.

 SYS1811: The process has stopped.

The software diagnostic code (trap number) is 000D.

SOLUTION

Apply CX.EXE, 45408 bytes, 5-13-94.


Self-Extracting File Name:  OS2UTP.EXE     Revision:  A

Files Included     Size     Date      Time

\
  OS2UTP.TXT         (This File)
   DBAPI.DLL     139477   11-17-92   10:05p
  OS2UTP.TXT       6581   01-24-95    5:29p
 REMOCON.EXE     168464   04-14-93    8:32a
 REMOCON.HLP       2695   01-15-93   12:03p
BTRCALLS.DLL      40674   09-20-91    1:23a
\3X\
    SEND.DOS      34512   01-06-95    5:33p
    SEND.EXE      17790   01-06-95    5:36p
   LOGIN.EXE     138784   06-01-94    9:08a
   LOGIN.MSG      12086   04-13-94    3:59p
   NCOPY.DOS      98861   01-14-93    1:23p
   NCOPY.EXE      67008   11-03-93   10:40a
   NCOPY.MSG       7255   01-29-93   10:31a
  NPRINT.EXE      86829   06-17-93    1:42p
  NPRINT.MSG      17990   05-18-93    9:26a
  SYSCON.EXE     273468   08-22-94    3:12p
 CAPTURE.EXE      37103   01-22-91    4:31p
\4X\
      CX.EXE      45408   05-13-94   10:26a
 CAPTURE.EXE     105149   09-02-94    3:15p
 CAPTURE.MSG      30953   05-05-94    4:28p


Installation Instructions:

To Install Utilities

1) Make backup copies of the the current OS/2 utilities files found in the
PUBLIC\OS2 or LOGIN\OS2 directories on your system.

2) Then copy the OS/2 utilities found in 3x or 4x to the respective PUBLIC\OS2
or LOGIN\OS2 directories on your system.

TO INSTALL REMOCON:

Copy REMOCON.EXE and REMOCON.HLP to a network or a local directory. (DBAPI.DLL
and BTRCALLS.DLL must be accessible as well) To Create a Remote Console icon
on the desktop with the following

     Path      <path>\REMOCON.EXE
     Parameters     <none>
     Working Dir    <path>

REMOCON.EXE can also be executed from the command line by changing to the path
where REMOCON.EXE is stored and type REMOCON. 


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