Re: cd tower problems

[Betty Dawn Hamilton <bhamilt@TENET.EDU>]

> computers. We have Sirs researcher, MAS, Infotrac, and Wilson disk.  Our
> tech poeople can not program it where more than one or two computers can
> use the same program.

Frances, we have had a problem with that, too, on occasion, but our
network guys resolved it.  I *think* SIRS was the culprit that caused the
problems. (We also have SIRS and Gale's Discovering Careers on CDs.)  The
way they explained it to me was that some of the DLL files are so similar
in construction that each CD just grabs an existing DLL and adds or
changes commands to operate it. That messes it up for use of the others.

Since I'm not a techie, I'm sure that is an oversimplified explanation,
but it's something like that. I'm not sure how they resolved the problem,
but they finally did.  We can now use any CD we need at any computer that
is networked.  We use Novell right now but we are going to Windows NT.
Windows NT is currently throughout the building, and the library will be
added when they have time to deal with it.

Betty
        Betty Dawn Hamilton * bhamilt@tenet.edu * 806.637.4523
Learning Resources Specialist * Tenet Master Trainer * Brownfield High School
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