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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
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Subject: Re: Printer Drivers in 3.0
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Date: 27 Oct 90 02:04:17 GMT
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In article <124543@linus.mitre.org> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>In article <41345@cci632.UUCP> lab@cci632.UUCP (Len Bauer) writes:
>>  Windows 3.0 was installed for me, by Gateway, when I bought their machine.
>>I am now trying to add my Panasonic printer to Windows, but when I view the 
>>list of available printer drivers, I only have the 'Generic/ Text only' driver.
>>  In my documentation and also in a third party book, I am led to believe that 
>>more drivers than the Generic one, are supplied by Windows.  Is this true, or
>>am I hallucinating?  
>Either you're not looking in the right place or Gateway fiddled with the
>SETUP.INI file.

I had this problem myself a while back when I was trying to compare a
3.5" distribution with a 5.25" distribution. I don't recall having
deleted any file, but after a little bit of frustration, decided to
reinstall windows, which, of course, fixed the problem.

kartik
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