ITEC Home PageI T E C N E W S L E T T E RVol. 5 No. 1January 15, 19971. NEW ORACLE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE IN GETSOFTWARE2. ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ORACLE3. ONLINE SYSTEM DISK BACKUP4. KERMIT FOR WINDOWS951) NEW ORACLE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE IN GETSOFTWARE: All the new additions can be found under the PC/MACINTOSH category of GETSOFTWARE. Personal Oracle for Windows: 25 PO732W95 7.3.2.1 167517 12/96 Personal Oracle for Win95 Directory $1$DRA3:[NOTARIMB.GETSOFTWARE.PO732W95] MIGRATE.TXT;1 47 PO732W95.ZIP;1 148465 README.DOC;1 53 README.TXT;1 5 WINZIP95.EXE;1 1229 Total of 5 files, 149799 blocks. Oracle 7.3.2.2 for NT: 19 ORNT7322 7.3.2.2 368802 12/96 Personal Oracle for NT Directory $1$DRA3:[NOTARIMB.GETSOFTWARE.ORNT7322] ORA7322.ZIP;1 328488 README.TXT;1 7 READMEDOC.TXT;1 159 WINZIP95.EXE;1 1229 Total of 4 files, 329883 blocks. Developer 2000 1.3.2 for Windows 3.x: 18 ORAWNDV2K13 1.3 234927 12/96 DEV 2000 1.3 WIN 3.11 Directory $1$DRA3:[NOTARIMB.GETSOFTWARE.WNDV2K13] README.TXT;1 4 RELNOTES.TXT;1 31 WINZIP31.EXE;1 1125 WNDV2K13.ZIP;1 208980 Total of 4 files, 210140 blocks. Submitted by Michael Notarius 2) ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ORACLE Oracle's Server Technologies Division formally announces plans for the end of Customer Care Support for 7.1 and 7.2 of the Oracle7 RDBMS, effective October 31, 1997. Announcement Details: Customer Care Support for 7.1 & 7.2 of the Oracle7 RDBMS will expire on October 31, 1997. The terminal releases for 7.1 and 7.2 of Oracle7 are 7.1.6 (7.1.5 for VAX and Alpha VMS) and 7.2.3 respectively. Customers must be on these terminal releases to continue to receive error corrections support through October 31, 1997. Oracle supported customers are entitled to release 7.3, the Oracle Universal Server, at no cost. ITEC will continue to support for 7.1.5 after October 31, 1997, but may be limited as a result of Oracle's decision. As always, if there are any questions / problems, please contact: Michael Notarius, Oracle Support ITEC (Information Technology Exchange Center) Submitted by Mike Notarius3) ONLINE SYSTEM DISK BACKUP With today's 24 hour by 7 day computer operation, there is little or no time to do the maintenance required to up keep the systems. One solution which requires a minimum of three disks would be as follows: DSAxx Shadow System DISK Set DUAxx Member Number One --> Main System Disk DUAxx Member Number Two --> Shadow Copy System Disk DUAxx Number One Backup --> Add to the Shadow Set once a week DUAxx Number Two Backup --> Use every other week Note: All disks must be the same size and type. The procedure would be to mount the "Number One Backup" disk every Saturday at noon. When the backup disk is a member of the shadow set and the shadow copy is done, dismount the backup disk. Now you have a disk that is a bootable image of the system disk. If you loose the main and shadow disk for any reason you can go to the offline backup disk. We have a dcl command procedure that can run in batch if your interested. Submitted by Joe Weber4) KERMIT FOR WINDOWS 95 For those of you that have payed the special subscription fee for Kermit for Windows 95, the latest version is 1.1.8. Version 1.1.8 is available in Getsoftware. Information on Kermit can be obtained at: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html Kermit 95 1.1.9, announced on December 18, turns out to have a defect affecting Windows 95 only (not Windows NT), resulting from our attempts to improve the way we work around the Windows 95 bug with "odd-sized" console windows. It happens when you try to set up a session with a "long" terminal screen (42/43 or 49/50 rows, rather than 24/25) and the TERMINAL VIDEO-CHANGE setting is DISABLED (the new default); the result is a terminal session whose lower portion is invisible. The workaround is to add: SET TERMINAL VIDEO-CHANGE ENABLED to your K95CUSTOM.INI file, or by restricting your sessions to 24x80 (or 25x80 when there is no status line). The problem is explained more fully in the short text file: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/newbugs.doc A small patch will be issued shortly. My apologies for the inconvenience. Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project For campuses interested in participation in Kermit for Windows 95/Windows NT please contact: Mary Ann Corsetti at corsetma@sysadm.suny.edu Note: A Maintenance/License Fee of $250 per year will be charged Full ITEC members. Submitted by Joe Weber5) PROCEDURE TO VIEW THE IP ADDRESS AND ETHERNET ADDRESS OF A PC On Windows NT system: ==================== > c:\winnt35\system32\ipconfig /all On Windows 95 system: ==================== > c:\windows\WINIPCFG Submitted by Joe Weber Editor: Barbara Boquard Boquarba@itec.suny.edu ITEC's General Office 716/878-4832 Director's Office 716/878-4832 Operations 716/878-5122 After hours 716/878-6642 FAX 716/878-4235 Web Page http://www.itec.suny.edu