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    AST RESEARCH, INC.         TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1125                4-4-95

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    			    INFORMA FAILS TO LOAD FROM SHARED VOLUME

    This is an informational bulletin.

    AST Informa is a software product available by subscription to AST server
    customers.  The software package is a Windows-based reference library that
    includes information regarding the products of AST and many other networking
    vendors.  The library includes technical bulletins, software fixes, and
    drivers, as well as thousands of articles from Ziff-Davis magazines
    (PC WEEK, PC WORLD, ETC.).

    AST has distributed several thousand copies of a special TRIAL EDITION of
    Informa.  The Trial Edition will only run 8 times, and then the CD DISC can
    no longer be used.

    ISSUES

    Due to the nature of this Trial product, it may not be run from a shared
    volume or from a network drive.

    This trial product can only be run from a workstation with a local CD-ROM
    drive.

    If you run the installation program from a shared drive, the installation will
    fail and you will be prompted to call AST support at 1-800-727-1278.

    If you try to re-install on a local workstation and are still unsuccessful,
    call back to AST SERVER SUPPORT at 1-800-727-1278 prompts 4, 4, 3.

    To subscribe to Informa (with Quarterly distribution) call the AST Informa
    Ordering Center at 1-800-950-3065.  AST does not handle subscriptions or
    fulfillment of this product.