FW: [WEB4LIB] ProQuest Direct 2.0 and Windows 3.11

[Knuth, Pat DAC CARL KNUTHP]

Oops!  Mary's right.  It's working today.  I forgot one of those cardinal
rules -
 always check one last time, just in case a miracle has occurred.  And
weekends are prime miracle time for this sort of thing.

Thanks

Pat Knuth
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From: Mary Moroney
To: Knuth, Pat  DAC  CARL  KNUTHP
Cc: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] ProQuest Direct 2.0 and Windows 3.11
Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 2:28PM


We are/were in the same situation.  The full text articles are suddenly
loading for us now (hopefully it is stable) - but last week we were unable
to display article but could email and use adobe acrobat for full images.

Our public PCS are networked and are using Internet Explorer ver. 3.03
and Windows 3.1

I hear UMI is working on some of these and other problems.

Mary F. Moroney
HODGSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: http://www.bryant.edu/~library
Bryant College

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Knuth, Pat  DAC  CARL  KNUTHP wrote:

> Is anyone else having problems with ProQuest Direct since it was upgraded
to
> version 2.0?  We were accessing ProQuest Direct using Internet Explorer
3.x
> and  Windows 3.11 and it worked just fine until the upgrade.  Now we
pretty
> much can't pull in citations, abstracts or ascii full text articles on
those
> PCs.
>
> Someone in tech support  told me that 98 percent of their users are  using
> 32-bit systems.  Many of our public PCs are 486's with 8 MB of RAM.  I
know
> they're old and slow,  but it's what we have.
>
> They also suggested we try Netscape, but Netscape 3.x is not free to
> government organizations and Netscape 4.x really wants 16MB of RAM
according
> to the things I've read.
>
> I'm curious to know if any of the rest of you have worked through some of
> these problems.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pat Knuth
> Systems Librarian
> Combined Arms Research Library
> US Army Command & General Staff College
> Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66027
> (913) 758-3019
> knuthp at leav-emh1.army.mil
>