On 4 Dec 00 at 0:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 19:40:10 -0500
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: M$ Printer Driver Files for DOS?
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>I have downloaded M$ Word, version 5.5 for DOS from somewhere.
>In the setup process I was unable to set up a printer because
>the setup program can't find the printer drivers.
Sam, I think you have to run setup from floppy. Certainly you need
not copy everything to A:, but just the basic files.
>In the zipped archive that I downloaded there are many files having
>the names of printers and having file extensions of "PR$".
>
>I am guessing that these PR$ files somehow contain the printer drivers,
>but possibly they are compressed by using some proprietary Micro$oft
>utility. Good guess? If my guess is right, then how can I extract the
>printer drivers?
I think this utility is setup.exe
>Please help.
>
>Sam Heywood
>P.S. I am aware that the printer driver files need to have the
>extension "PRD". Simply renaming the PR$ files so that they would
>have PRD extensions doesn't work. Tried that.
PRD, or in the German version DBS are the drivers. There is another
utility that is probably not included in your download packet
makeprd.exe. It enables you to customize printer drivers editing a
readable version of the drivers and compiling new PRD files. If you
need a particular driver, I could send it to you. I have Word 5.0,
5.5 and 6.0, here, the drivers are probably compatible in all
versions.
Regards,
Christof Lange
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