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Howdy All,

	I have an older Epson dot matrix printer which I need to have
cooperate with WordPerfect 5.0.  The printer is a model RX-80, which
appears to postdate the FX-80, but not the MX-80, EX, LQ, etc.  Since
WP 5.0 doesn't provide a driver for this model printer and since the
FX-80 driver provided with WP 5.0 doesn't work very well with this
RX-80 model, I figure that I have the following options:

	1) Find a WP50 driver for the RX-80.  I expect that this would
	   be rare.

	2) Write my own ".PRS" driver for the RX-80.  Is it possible
	   to hand generate a ".PRS" file?  What is its structure?
	   I do have the complete manual for this printer, so I could
	   define all of the necessary control codes.

	3) Have WP50 generate a disk output file with FX-80 codes in
	   it and write a little conversion utility to account for
	   the printer control-code differences between the FX-80 and
	   the RX-80 models.

	Getting a different printer is not an option.  I've listed the
possibilities in the best-to-worst case scenarios.  If anyone would be
generous enough to help me with information regarding any of the above
solutions (or an alternate one,) I'd be extremely grateful!

Regards,
Bob Ingraham
rwingraham@ucdavis.edu