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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: WP4W 5.2: Can't choose windoze driver?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193657.296049@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
- References: <1993Jan26.021536.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:36:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.021536.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >Anyone installed WP4W 5.2 on 2.1 beta? I cannot choose those windoze printer
- >drivers. Whenever I choose one of them, it says "Invalid printer file."
- >When I choose "Update," the message is something like "WIN2WRS.EXE causes
- >a GP fault" or "Division by zero," etc. My understanding (maybe wrong) is
- >that when a windoze printer driver is chosen, the WIN2WRS.EXE in \WPWIN
- >will make a .WRS file from the .DRV file in ..\WINOS2\SYSTEM for the printer.
- >WP4W 5.1 can do this flawlessly, but 5.2 can't.
- >
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- The problem is that WP4Windows needs to have 99 files set, otherwise it
- blotches up royally during install. This is burried in the documentation
-
- >I still remember someone said that WP4W 5.2 was even OS/2 aware, etc., etc.
- >That's one of the reason that we got the upgrade. Such claims seem to be
- >misleading, since my experience tells me that even the installation was full
- >of trouble. The ATM 2.5 was quite OK, but both 5.2 itself and Grammatik 5
- >caused trouble during their installations. It was the fifth time that I
- >finally get the Grammatik installed completely, the other tries always being
- >dead during the processes.
- >
- >The Fax/PM driver can be chosen and works correctly.
- >
-
- All of the above are resolved by the higher files settings. and it is NOT
- os/2 aware, or it would not need this fix...
-
- --Uncle Wolf
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