NetWare Client for DOS and MS Windows User Guide

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Installing or Upgrading NetWare Client Software

What Happens during Installation

The following events happen when you install the NetWare Client software.

A Directory Is Created

A directory is created for the DOS client ﬁles according to the target

directory speciﬁed during installation.

If you are installing for Microsoft (MS) Windows, the MS Windows client

ﬁles are copied to the speciﬁed MS Windows directory. (The default is

C:\NWCLIENT for DOS and C:\WINDOWS for MS Windows unless the

installation program ﬁnds a copy of the VLM.EXE and WIN.COM ﬁles in a

different location.)

Files Are Copied

All NetWare Client ﬁles for DOS and MS Windows are copied to the

directories speciﬁed during installation.

Five kinds of ﬁles are copied:

• NetWare User Tools for DOS and MS Windows

• Virtual Loadable Module™ (VLM) program files

• VLM™ Manager

• LAN drivers

• Unicode tables with corresponding code pages and country codes

• MS Windows Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files