Ref: 03050014
Title: Carousel "OLE" Driver Problem Fixed with Version 1x03
Date:  10/26/90

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

SoftLogic Solutions, Inc., has a product called "Software Carousel,"
which creates a multiprocessing environment much like Microsoft Windows.
Using Software Carousel, multiple applications appear to be running
simultaneously (though all of them except the foreground application are
actually scrolled to disk).  Application "windows" (or what in OS/2 would
be termed "screen-groups") are known in Carousel as "partitions."

Software Carousel includes a driver called "OLE," which is designed to
enable access to a network from within Carousel.  OLE has had a problem
for some time in the way that it functions with a 3Com 3+Open network.
A workstation running OLE may load the networking software within a
separate Carousel partition to save memory in other partitions, rather than
loading the network code before Carousel is activated.  If the workstation
then places its "networking" Carousel partition into the background, then
eventually the 3+Open server will stop responding to ALL users.  (This will
happen in a period of time ranging from a few minutes, if the OLE driver is
configured with zero buffers, to a few days.)  The server is not really dead,
however; if the original Carousel workstation returns its "networking"
partition to the foreground, then the server will immediately come back to
life.

SoftLogic now has a new version of OLE.EXE, version 1x03, that fixes this
problem.  It can be downloaded from SoftLogic's BBS at 603-644-5556,
file OLEFIX, or you may call SoftLogic Tech Support at 603-644-5555.
