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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I had already tried moving all the *.pr$ files to \print1 when it could 
not find the one it needed.

I finally got this to work for the standard printer driver which comes as 
ttyff.pr$.  The program said it was looking for 
\print1\ttyff.* and when I put it in print1\ it worked and generated 
ttyff.prd.

There was also the option to specify the actual path where the file was 
located. (I did not try doing this).

But I am trying to install Epson LQ2500.   It cannot find \print1\lq2500.* 
and what I have is Epsonlq1.pr$, Epsonlq2.pr$ etc.  I am thinking of 
renaming these to Epson LQ2500.pr$ but I don't know which one to rename.
The LQ1500 would probably also work, or the 500 or 850.  I don't have the 
actual printer here to test my guesses on, it is a friend's printer.
I might just try lq1 and if it does not work, try emailing her a 
succession of others (but she is terrible at dealing with email 
attachments).  

If she prints only plain text, perhaps standard printer would be adequate.



On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:

> On 23 Dec 03 at 14:30, keesan AT iamjlamb.com wrote:
> 
> >Reply to Sender: mailto:keesan AT iamjlamb.com
> >Reply to List: mailto:baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >
> >I cannot find the email where someone said to put the printer files ending
> >in .pr$ in the directory where the setup program was looking for them, but
> >even after I did this the printer drivers did not install properly  (no 
> >.prd
> >was created).  Nor did it work to give it the correct path when asked to do
> >so.  The program is looking for files of format epsonlq.*, it says. I am
> >giving up on this and letting our friend use WORKS for DOS to type and 
> >print
> >letters.  (She pays us for our help in cookies of the non-software 
> >variety).
> 
> Ok. I will try it myself.
> 
> 0. copy wd55_eng.exe to t:\word
> 
> 1. running t:\word\wd55_eng.exe - unzipping
> 
> 2. running t:\word\setup.exe
>    - menu option Set up hard disk
>    - Install a new version of Word in T:\Word55
>    - ...
>    - Install printer drivers
>    - Epson LQ 870
>    - Continue with setup
>    - ....
>    - Type fullname:
> 
> 3. First error message: cannot find the file 867.TBL
>    (867 is non-standard DOS code page)
>    - skip file
>    - do not setup system files
> 4. Second error message: cannot find the file PRINT1\EPSONLQ5.*
>    - skip file
>    - setup successfully completed
> 
> 5. Create directory t:\word\print1
>    and move all files *.pr$ to t:\word\print1
> 
> 6. Start t:\word\setup.exe again
>    - menu option Set up hard disk
>    - Modify an existing version of Word in T:\Word55
>    - Install a printer driver
>    - Epson LQ 870
>    - Complete Setup and modify Word
> 
> Result: epsonlq5.prd is in t:\word55
> 
> BTW: makeprd.exe is the fantastic utility to edit printer drivers.
> 
> Christof Lange
> 
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