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Re: Searching for HP LaserJet 4 Drivers

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From: Neil J. Long
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:17
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In article <1h8qajINNfil@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:
>From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
>Subject: Re: Searching for HP LaserJet 4 Drivers
>Date: 23 Dec 92 04:35:31 GMT
>In article <BzMEI0.AE8@ecf.toronto.edu> cces@ecf.toronto.edu (Congress of Can Eng Students) writes:
>>In article <cZq4VB2w165w@quink.in-berlin.de> mtheil@quink.in-berlin.de (Matthias Theil) writes:
>>>a friend of mine bought a HP LaserJet 4. But he is missing drivers to
>>>use it under Windows or generally with some applications. However, the
>>>drivers-disk which came with the machine is not very completely.
>>HPIV.  The disks do include a WP driver though.
>
>My dad just got one of these for his new practice... he said that the
>disks did not include wp drivers. He's a bit ticked off that HP is
>making him wait a couple weeks for them to ship it out. I'd like to
>get these for him by christmas - can anyone point me to an FTP site?
>Or, email them to me or email a site name where they could be picked
>up. If someone is nervous about opening their machine for an evening
>to some wierdo off the net (that would be me :) I could make one of
>the machines here writable by anonymous. Just as long as I undid it
>before anyone got back from break!
>
>Please help, I want to impress him with the value of Usenet.
>All I need are Word Perfect 5.1 drivers to be run under DOS.
Strange,
I just installed a LJ4 and it came with a WP DOS driver on a disk along with 
Lotus 123 drivers - works like a charm.
Neil
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From: long@vax.ox.ac.uk (Neil J. Long)
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Subject: Re: Searching for HP LaserJet 4 Drivers
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Date: 23 Dec 92 12:17:11 GMT
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