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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: systems/programs
Keywords: help!
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Date: 19 Feb 90 17:11:57 GMT
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In article <13954@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jhlieske@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Henry Lieske) writes:
>Responding to: 9 Feb 90 19:26:55 GMT 
>ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) 
>
>	Having moved from the Atari ST to the Mac (by selling the 
>old 1040 and buying an SE, and keeping my Epson LQ800), I 
>understand some of your confusion.  First of all, you need to 
>know that Mac files contain _resources_, which include code
>fragments, fonts, pictures, text, etc.
>
>	The Installer programs copies resources from one file to
>another; in theory, you should't have to copy the entire
>System file from the Epson disk; you just need to copy certain
>resources, which the Installer will do for you.  I installed
>the Epson LQ driver on my Mac SE w/System 6.02, and it works OK.
>I have had problems with other programs (Arkanoid for one) that
>don't run with the driver installed.
>
>	Hope I was of some help.
>	--Jay

First, I would like to thank
all those kind Mac netters who have come to my rescue of late.
You are all much appreciated.  

I TOO have had success with installing the LQ800 Epson driver
with system 6.0.2 .. my DIFFICULTY is getting teh
installer to work with system " 6.0.3"  ... it may
be that i don't need 6.0.3  or 6.0.4  or any future 
update system files... I would like to think, however,
that i can upgrade my system as updates come along..
and simply reinstall the epson driver...  when i try to
install the epson driver with the included install program
with 6.0.3 on my hard disk,  i get the warning "System 
older".. and it won't install.  If i simply copy everything
BUT the system 6.0.2 file from the Epson floppy onto my
hard drive.. use chooser etc .. font/DA to load the
Epson fonts... i get "Printworks not installed.  Use 
installer program to install properly" .. when i run chooser and
try to print.  SO the end result is that i have a system folder
with 6.0.3 on my first PARTITION and a complete enviroment set-up
the way i like...and a system 6.0.2 folder in the NEXT logical
PARTITION...  this is not a problem since i disable the first
partition when booting up if i know that i am going to be printing.
SO far, i haven't noticed differences between 6.0.2 and 6.0.3
.. but there must be some! 

Again,  thanks for all the help...

-kevin