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                            NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE             Version 1.00
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  Product involved:   AXIS Print Monitor for Windows 95

  Release date:       98-10-20

  Release type:       PRODUCTION

  Software version:   2.03

  Software media:     Diskettes

  Last preceding
  release:            2.03
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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 a bug that prevented printing documents with no names on 
     windows NT. Some applictions do not specify a name on the document
     they  send to the printer. The print job was never printed and got 
     the deleted status in the print job queue.

  4. 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 95
  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 a bug that prevented printing documents with no names on 
     windows NT. Some applictions do not specify a name on the document
     they  send to the printer. The print job was never printed and got 
     the deleted status in the print job queue.
  
  4. 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 95
  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.

  Due to a limitation in Windows, it is not possible to
  print from DOS on the machine where AXIS Print Monitor is
  installed. If AXIS Print Monitor is installed on a server,
  it is possible to print from DOS from the clients.

  On shared printers in Windows 95, the status of the printer
  is not reported to the clients. Windows has no mechanism for
  reporting printer status to clients. 

  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.

  It is not possible for the Print Monitor to finish other print
  jobs while a LPR print job is printing on Windows 95. 
  Therefore it is not recommended to use LPR printing in a 
  client-server configuration with Windows 95 as the server.

  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.