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                          NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE
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          Product involved:   AXIS 540/542, AXIS 540+/542+ and AXIS 640/642.

          Release date:       96-05-08

          Release type:       PRODUCTION

          Software version:   5.16

          Software media:     Flash image files
                              AXIS 540/542:   flash.img, size 632432 bytes.
                              AXIS 540+/542+: flash.img, size 1156729 bytes.
                              AXIS 640/642:   flash.img, size 1254976 bytes.

          Software checksum:  -

          Last preceding
          release:            None.

          Flash loading 
          instructions:       See flash.txt document

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          Easy Release Description:

          1. Bidirectional communication on the parallel port have been added.

          2. Support for the HTTP-protocol have been added.

          3. AppleTalk, PROS and Reverse Telnet have been updated to support
             reverse data when printing on the parallel port.

          4. Support for TBCP, binary mode printing, have been added in the 
             AppleTalk application.
          
          5. Software updating of the flash circuit over the network is 
             supported via IPX (using NetPilot version 1.30 and later) and FTP.  
 
          6. NDS support is included in the NetWare protocol stack.


          NOTE!

          - This is the first production release for Axis new pocket print 
            server generation AXIS 540/640.


         Best regards

         AXIS COMMUNICATIONS AB


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          Further information is available on request:

          Appendix A : Detailed technical description of the release.

          Appendix B : Software limitations.
          

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         Appendix A   -  DETAILED TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEASE  App A 1(1)

          Product involved: AXIS 540/640
          Software version: 5.16

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          1. Bidirectional communication on the parallel port have been added
             according to IEEE 1284. Nibble and Byte modes are supported. 
             Bidirectional support may be turned off setting the 'PRx_IN' 
             parameter in the logical printer to 'NONE'. 

          2. Support for the HTTP-protocol have been added. When the function
             is activated by a WWW-browser a product home page is displayed, 
             which in turn contains further links to AXIS Communications 
             WWW-server.

          3. AppleTalk, PROS and Reverse Telnet have been updated to support
             reverse data when printing on the parallel port. Printing works
             even if the printer doesn't support reverse data. 

          4. Support for TBCP, binary mode printing, have been added in the 
             AppleTalk application. The TBCP support is activated by setting
             the parameters 'BINARY' to 'YES' and 'BINARY_TYPE' to 'TBCP', 
             which is the default setting.
          
          5. Software updating of the flash circuit over the network is 
             supported via IPX (using NetPilot version 1.30 and later) and FTP.  
 
          6. NDS support is included in the NetWare protocol stack, although
             bindery mode is still supported.


         Appendix B   - SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS                        App B  1(1) 

          Product involved: AXIS 540/640
          Software version: 5.16

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         1. Although it may work in some applications, the AXIS 540+/542+
            doesn't claim support for any other printer drivers than Laserwriter
            7 and 8 in the AppleTalk environment.

         2. In the AXIS 540/542 model there is no mib-file nor axinstall-file
            available.