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Re: GeoPac Distribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste)
Wed Mar 29 11:49:14 1995
To: gyoung@MIT.EDU (Grant Young )
Cc: opac-lib@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:48:56 EST
From: Eric Celeste <efc@MIT.EDU>
Since I posted earlier Hotwire instructions for GeoPac, I wanted respond to
Grant's points.
> 1. Windows programs generally need to be installed from within Windows.
The Hotwire distribution _does_ install GeoPac from Windows. The
instructions you get when you run the Hotwire script tell you to run the
setup program that is shipped with GeoPac.
> 2. Geopac may not work properly with Lan Workplace Version 4.1.
We have been running GeoPac on a number of the older AST machines
without incident... but this point is well taken. Beware and communicate
problems you run into to the System's Office or OPAC team members.
> 3. Machines that had earlier versions of Geopac may need some special
> handling to make sure that old *.ini files are cleared out.
The Hotwire distribution _does_ take care of this for you.
> 4. The Geopac server on emmy is currently very limited in it's potential
> number of users.
This is a significant issue. We should not use GeoPac frivilously...
right now we should be using it for testing and training only.
One problem is that GeoPac can crash and leave a "port" in use, thus
eventually preventing new GeoPac users from connecting to our database.
I hope this clears up some of the confusion. The bottom line is that the
Systems Office will be developing a permanent method of distribution for
GeoPac.
...Eric
