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<BILLA@magic.hi.net> writes:

> >    The only application they run is MAS90 accounting software.
> > Most of the time, everything works very nicely.  However, they
> > tell me that once in a while, files will vanish during the
> > backup or will go sparse.

> I have worked a bit with Mas90 system. 

And so have I, and MAS90 is not perfectly stable when things go
amiss, and it never tells you anything until too late.

One of its foibles is its memory requirement. Using pick lists
in deeply embedded menus an modules consumes memory voraciously.
It's my policy to have at least 590k free on the workstation
when MAS90 is launched. This pretty much precludes launching
it from Windoze unless QEMM is installed due to the practical 
memory constraints in virtual DOS boxes.

A MAS90 requirement is that Share *must* be installed on the
workstation. I've seen a user or two remove it and have problems 
crop up.

Another potential problem is that it needs the best, most stable 
Novell drivers. IPX.COM is right out, and ODI drivers should be
the latest and greatest. (Haven't had the courage to try messing
with VLM's on the company accounting system). I've seen old 
IPX.COM workstations corrupt data with nary a word from MAS90.

All in all, it's so frail that I wouldn't understand why it's such 
a popular accounting package except for taking into account that IS 
staff never choose the company accounting package.

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Paul Tichy                     (713) 486-8337
Senior Network Engineer, Phoenix Data Systems
Houston, TX   USA
ptichy@mailserv.phoenix.net
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