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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lotus 1-2-3 Value Pack PostScript Driver
Message-ID: <2987@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 19:02:49 GMT
References: <329@optilink.UUCP> <7874@cup.portal.com>
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In article <7874@cup.portal.com> David_J_Buerger@cup.portal.com writes:
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<I spent half a day trying to install the Value Pak PostScript driver.
<Couldn't get it to work.  I went through two different Lotus support
<people and they could barely understand the issues.  Needless to say,
<they couldn't get it to work either.  Don't buy this package for the
<PostScript driver.  In fact, it isn't worth buying at all.  Who needs
<more ram resident programs mucking with the AT?  :*)

I too couldn't get it to work and called Lotus. She didn't have the answer
than and because I was leaving for the day, she would find out the answer
and call me back.  Well, she did the next day, with the answer.

The driver that lotus gives you is a DOS LPT1: driver.  You need to configure
the printer output as DOS LPT1:, not printer LPT1.  Lotus talks directly
to the line printer port and the correct way uses the DOS BIOS calls, which
the added driver needs to intercept to get it to the correct COM port.

I hope this helps.
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