SCO Merge 5.0 for OpenServer

Congratulations on your purchase of SCO Merge(tm) software.

This optional service provides users the capability of running Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 sessions on SCO OpenServer(tm). These release notes provide important information about SCO Merge and pointers on where to find further information.

New SCO Merge Features

SCO Merge 5.0 is an updated version of SCO Merge 4.1. This new version includes some new features and improvements as well as some bug fixes. New major features since 4.1: Some major changes from Merge 4:

Installation Requirements

SCO Merge itself is shared by all users, but each user must install a separate copy of Windows and Windows applications.

Supported versions of Windows:

SCO Merge does not support the following: For Windows 95 you must also supply a matching Windows 95 boot floppy (also known as a Windows Startup Disk). (You can also use a "dd" image file of such a boot floppy instead if you do not have a floppy drive in the machine you are installing on.) If you have a bootable Windows 98 CDROM, you do not need a boot floppy. If you do not have a bootable Windows 98 CD, you must supply a Windows 98 boot floppy. Note: SCO Merge only supports the "Windows 95 to Windows 98 Upgrade" CD for fresh installation of Windows. Plus in order to install Windows from this you must have a qualifying Windows 95 installation CD to prove that you are allowed to use the upgrade. You must supply a Windows 95 or Windows 98 boot floppy because this CD is not bootable.

Filesystem Space Requirements:

(The above requirements for $HOME are based on the "C:" drive location being mapped by default to $HOME/win. You can change where this is mapped using the SCO Merge "winsetup" configuration utility, or you can use symbolic links to cause $HOME/win to be located elsewhere.)

Installing SCO Merge

To install SCO Merge, use the Software Manager. See Chapter 4, "Installing and managing software components" in the SCO OpenServer Handbook for details.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of SCO Merge, we recommend that you remove the old version of SCO Merge first and then install the new SCO Merge. (When you remove the previous version of SCO Merge, your Windows installations, applications and configuration settings are not removed.) It is important that there must not be anyone using Merge while Merge is being removed or upgraded.

It is possible to upgrade existing Merge sessions from the standard Winsock 1.1 style of networking to the new VNET style of networking. VNET supports full Microsoft Networking Services over TCP/IP. See the SCO Merge User's Guide for details on how to do this.

Licenses

SCO Merge 5 requires a license to be installed before it can be fully used. You use the SCO License Manager to install or remove the SCO Merge licenses. If you do not have an SCO Merge 5 license, you can use the following evaluation license: 

        License Number:  EVLMERGE5 
        License Code:    tdrthlid 
        License Data:    d60;k0;q0;mmbr90w
The license is for evaluation purposes only. It expires 60 days after it is installed and may not be reused or replaced by another evaluation license.

After Installing

Once you have installed SCO Merge, refer to the on-line SCO Merge User's Guide, which will guide you through the following steps:

SCO Merge Documentation

A variety of on-line documentation is provided as part of the SCO Merge product:

This release note is available via the SCO Merge User's Guide when SCO Merge is installed, and it is also available on the installation CD in directory info/merge regardless of whether SCO Merge is installed.

Known Product Limitations

Known Problems and Troubleshooting