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Compatibility Statement
Campbell Services Inc.'s OnTime v2.0 and OnTime for Windows v1.0
(both network versions) are compatible with LANtastic NOS version
4.xx.
Product Overview
OnTime lets you schedule appointments and maintain the calendar for
a workgroup. The main screen of OnTime displays a day planner and
a narrow box that shows at a glance occupied blocks of time during
the day. Most of the program's functions can be accessed through
a handful of push-button keys at the bottom of the screen, which
includes adding and deleting appointments, adding and attaching
notes, rescheduling appointments, searching for keywords, printing
a calendar and replacing the day planner with either a week-at-a-
glance or a month-at-a-glance view. In addition to appointments,
it also allows you to maintain to-do lists. To-do items can be
prioritized and set to automatically roll over until marked
completed.
The network version supports group scheduling (on a group
calendar), including notification to the individual that an
appointment has been added to his or her calendar. Each user can
maintain the access rights of other users to his/her private
calendar, and s/he can belong to different groups to gain access
to the group calendars. OnTime produces tri-fold/duplex reports
that combines different formats and views of the schedule on one
page.
Product Installation Notes
OnTime comes with a slim manual which covers installation on LANs
in general, but a document explaining how to set up OnTime on a
LANtastic network is available on request from Campbell Services'
Tech. Support. Installation is very automated, and the Windows
version offers to install OnTime in your list of Windows programs
loaded at startup and modify your win.ini.
OnTime must be installed onto a drive that can be accessed by all
users and must have the same drive designator for all users,
including the server. However, a server with files required to
initialize or shutdown Windows should not remap any of its local
drives to network drives, or else Windows will lock up on the logo
screen during initialization (For details, please refer to Chapter
11 Using LANtastic with Microsoft Windows in the LANtastic NOS
version 4.1 Upgrade Manual). Instead the DOS SUBST command should
be used, e.g. SUBST d: c:\ontime.
Executable files in the \ONTIME directory must be set to read-only
by the DOS ATTRIB command. After installation, you will need to
add users to the system through the SETUPNET(for DOS) or
WSETUPN(for Windows) utility. Each user's access can be
password'ed. DOS SHARE is required on the server but not the
workstations. Memory requirement for OnTime's TSR is 15k when in
background, 380k when in foreground. It cannot be loaded high
with the DOS loadhigh command, or with any of the popular memory
managers.
Product Execution Notes
To invoke OnTime, type ONTIME or OTLOAD for DOS, or click on the
icon set up to run OTWIN.exe for Windows. It will then prompt you
for the user name. The loader will swap itself to EMS memory if
available. It was noticed that the Ontime for Windows' alarm
tunes may not play to completion when running in Windows. This is
due to a minor problem with the LANtastic redirector. A
workaround is also available which needs to turn off network
bleeping altogether, but in most cases users will not need to
worry about this cosmetic problem and the impact to the usage of
the product is minimal.
Printing
The DOS version of OnTime has an Options menu that allows you to
select a printer port. The Windows version allows changes by
selecting Files/Printer Setup from the top menu bar. As for all
Windows applications, since Windows v3.x attempts to optimize LPT1
ports for local printing, you must connect your local LPT2 or LPT3
ports to network printers. See Chapter 11 in the LANtastic NOS
v4.1 Upgrade Manual for details.
Vendor Information
Campbell Services, Inc. 21700 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 1070,
Southfield, MI 48075, U.S.A. Tel: (313)559-5955
COMPATIBILITY BULLETIN
Workgroup Productivity: Campbell OnTime
ARTISOFT, Inc. makes no warranties as to the completeness or
accuracy of this document. LANtastic is a trademark of ARTISOFT,
Inc. Brand names, company names, and product names are trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective companies.