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                            NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE             Version 1.00
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  Product involved:   AXIS Print Monitor for Windows NT

  Release date:       98-10-20

  Release type:       PRODUCTION

  Software version:   2.03

  Software media:     Diskettes

  Last preceding
  release:            2.02
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 Release description:

  1. Improved printing speed for the NetBIOS/NetBEUI protocol.

  2. Made "LPT1" the default printer name when adding new LPR 
     ports.

  3. Fixed bug that caused an error message when printing documents
     with names containing national characters from Windows 95 to 
     a shared printer on Windows NT, which printed with print 
     monitor using the LPR protocol. This caused the error message: 
     "There was an unhandled error in the AXIS Print Monitor. 
     You need to restart the computer to reactivate the AXIS 
     Print Monitor.".    
         
                                                      
  Further information is available on request:
  
  Appendix A: Technical description of the release

  Appendix B: Software limitations




  Appendix A - TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE RELEASE                1(1)

  Product involved: AXIS Print Monitor for Windows NT
  Software version: 2.03
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  1. Improved printing speed for the NetBIOS/NetBEUI protocol 
     has been accomplished by using different buffer sizes, more 
     adapted to the specific print server and the network 
     environment. 

  2. Made "LPT1" the default printer name when adding new LPR 
     ports. Some versions of print server software without 
     logical printer do not have the previous default "PR1" 
     printer name.

  3. Fixed bug that caused a error message when printing documents
     with names containing national characters from Windows 95 to 
     a shared printer on Windows NT, which printed with print 
     monitor using the LPR protocol. It caused the error message 
     "There was an unhandled error in the AXIS Print Monitor. 
     You need to restart the computer to reactivate the AXIS 
     Print Monitor.". Windows 95 uses internally the multibyte
     character set. Some characters where not correctly 
     converted to the Unicode character set used internally 
     in Windows NT.
 


  Appendix B - SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS                                1(1)

  Product involved: AXIS Print Monitor for Windows NT
  Software version: 2.03
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  AXIS Print Monitor runs on Intel X86 platforms.
 
  When running the Add Printer wizard immediately after the
  monitor is installed or after reboot, the list with available
  AXIS Ports may be empty. Go back in the wizard, wait and retry
  to get the list with AXIS Ports.

  On shared printers, the status of the printer is reported only
  to Windows NT 4 clients. The status reporting is handled by
  Windows.

  If a NetBIOS/NetBEUI print job is suspended for more than about
  3 minutes (e.g. when the printer is out of paper), the print job
  will be restarted from the beginning. This is according to the 
  behavior of Microsoft's NetBIOS implementation.

  If a printer is Offline when a print job is started, no popup
  message will be issued. The reason is that the print job is
  pending in the spooler and the AXIS Print Monitor is not 
  called until the printer is Online.   

  Printing small print jobs ( <4 kb) using the LPR protocol to
  Print Servers with V5.30 software version can cause the Print
  Servers to hang. It must be restarted again. Please upgrade
  those Print Servers with new software.

  The error pop-up message does not disappear until the user
  either presses the Retry or Cancel button, even if the print
  job is finished.

  While printing using the LPR protocol, the progress count in
  the Windows print queue does not correspond to the actual 
  progress of the print job.