ACER 5220 PC-NFS device drivers is distributed on one 360K bytes
diskette. And four programs put in the subdirectory \NFS5220W.
As to it's contents and facilities as following:
a. NFS5220.SYS - Acer 5220 PC-NFS device driver is identical
to the file NFS5220.SYS of the subdirectory
\NFS5220.
Command syntax:
DEVICE=C:\NFS\NFS5220.SYS [/i#] [/p###]
This command instruction must put in CONFIG.SYS file.
where:
1. /i# is the hardware interrupt value used.
2. /p### is the base I/O port address in hexa.
Argument 1,2 should be used only when the factory settings
have been changed. If both of argument are omitted, the
default values are IRQ2 and Port Address 260h individually.
Its function is similar to give value like /i2 /p260.
Sample CONFIG.SYS file: (for Acer 5220 Ethernet controller)
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DEVICE=\ANSI.SYS │
│ DEVICE=\NFS\PCNFS.SYS │
│ DEVICE=\NFS\SOCKDRV.SYS │
│ DEVICE=\NFS\NFS5220.SYS │
│ BUFFERS=20 │
│ FILES=20 │
│ LASTDRIVE=M │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
b. SHELLDRV.OBJ - Acer 5220 device driver for NetWare V2.0a.
This object file should be linked with NetWare
2.0a IPX shell by shell generation.
c. E5220SH.obj - Acer 5220 device driver for NetWare V2.10,
2.11, 2.12. this object file should be linked
with NetWare 2.10 or later IPX shell by shell
generation.
d. 5220SH.LAN - Acer 5220 NetWare IPX Shell Pointer File, for
Novell NetWare V2.10 or later. It's must be
used by shell generation.
e. SELNFS.COM - This program is put in \AUTOEXEC.BAT file, to
select NFSRUN to active PC-NFS drivers or not ?
Detail usage may refer to drivers manual.
f. XDVMAP.COM - PC-NFS drivers always occupy logical driver A:
to V:, taht will affect Netware search drivers
operation. Acer offer XDVMAP.COM to reset
the redundant logical drivers that occupied
by PC-NFS to be available for Netware search
drivers.
NOTE1. The SHELLDRV.OBJ and E5220SH.OBJ NetWare drivers for
PC-NFS workstation are different from the NetWare
driver in the "Acer 5220 NetWare Device Drivers"
diskette.
More details about installation and facilities refers to "ACER
5220 Ethernet Card Device Drivers Reference Manual" - Chapter
4 : PC-NFS Network software doe DOS and, Chapter 5 : PC-NFS
Workstation for Novell Netware.