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From: "Hugh_Messenger.EuroPARC"@Xerox.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: SLM804's, ASSIGN.SYS, etc
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Date: 3 Oct 88 13:36:18 GMT
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I'm busy trying to sort things out having just taken delivery of a Triangle
40Mb hard disk and an SLM804 laser printer.  My main problem seems to be
with ASSIGN.SYS files.  At the moment, if I want to run (say) Timeworks DTP
after having run Easydraw, I have to fart about renaming the various
assign.sys files on the root directory of drive C and then reboot.  Hardly
satisfactory.

I have tried combining the two assign.sys files, but whichever way I try it
one of the applications barfs and complains about not being able to find
its font files.  My general approach is to put *all* font files and drivers
into one directory, set the path correctly in the 'master' assign.sys, then
for each device make a list of all fonts specified in the various
assign.sys files of the applications I need.  The problem with Timeworks
DTP and Easydraw appears to be that they have different names for the same
device number .. ?  As I have no documentation whatsoever on GEM, I'm kind
of blundering about in the dark.  Speaking of which, can anyone recommend
any GEM documentation?

If anyone out there has an SLM804 and has managed to sort out some sort of
working assign.sys, I'd be very glad to hear from them.

Oh, while I'm here, another question.  Is there such a thing as a
Postscript driver/emulator for the SLM804, ie. something that will let me
print Postscript files as if the SLM804 was a Postscript printer?  OK, so
considering who I work for I should be asking for an Interpress driver, but
..

   -- Hugh

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