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Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:47:31 PDT7
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing postscript printer on Win-eCS SOLVED

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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:58:19 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:
>In <200309030717.2773547.11@scoug.com>, on 09/03/03
> at 07:17 AM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

>> Directory of H:\os2\dll\PSCRIPT
>
>> 3-21-01 7:20p 792394 14842 PSCRIPT.DRV
>> 1 file(s) 792394 bytes used
>
>This is probably your installed PostScript driver.
>
>FWIW, none of the above are Windows printer drivers.
>
>>A Google search reveals <http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/files/gfd/sysprnt/>
>>offering pscripten.exe dtd June 9, 2003 "OS/2 Print Subsystem Printer
>>driver - Pscript for OS/2 Warp 4.00 or above (English release) This
>>driver package provides you with IBM's most current support for printer
>>devices on the OS/2 Operating System. Current printer driver level is
>>30.792"
>
>Scratching head... Why are you not downloading drivers from the eCS site

Search eCS site for PSCRIPT.DRV produces No Results

>or the OS2 DDPak site?

Leads to PSCRIPTEN.EXE which unpacks to a spiffy new OS/2 driver (only)

>You seem to have invented an overly complicated method that does not work.

Floundering in absence of documention.

>
>>As I am intending to install a number of printers on Win-eCS and am just
>>floundering around here, I shall much appreciate any directions.
>
>OS/2 printer drivers do not provide support for Windows printing, other
>than passing the formatted printer data to the printer. You need to find
>a Win3.1 printer driver for your printer and install it using the Win3.1
>control panel.

OK, tried that route, see below

>
>The eCS installer will install Win3.1 drivers for you behind the scenes
>for the printers you select during installation, assuming they have Win3.1
>drivers.

Don't recall being offered that option.

Afterwards, you usually have to do this yourself. It depends on
>how the driver is packaged.
>
>Since this is a Postscript printer, you probably can use a Win3.1 driver
>for a similar PostScript printer.

So I went to the disk images I have in my archive (I now copy over all
floppies to my hard drive since floppies are starting to fail on me) and
found PSCRIPT.DRV for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and installed; it
works. I also used the DOS EXPAND utility to create (from the archived
disk images) the drivers for all my other printers.

Thanks for the clues. I'm now a happy Quark user (til the next problem
comes up.)

Jeffrey Race

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