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In article <NELSON.90Aug28101510@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
:In article <559@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
:
:   I was most impressed with Painter's Apprentice (authors Russell
:   Nelson and Patrick Naughton), [...] but I can't get it to print.
:
:   The doco says it's not crippleware,  so I'm wondering if the print
:   option doesn't highlight (it stays in italics - if you've used
:   Windows,  you know what I mean) because we use network printers (HP
:   laserJet IID's).  I'm wondering if the program doesn't do a hardware
:   check for the printer.
:
:No, I wish I could do a hardware check for the printer.  Unfortunately,
:there's no way for a program to interrogate the printer type, nor for
:user to configure his system *once* for a printer.  Each and every program
:needs to be told specially what your printer is, and Painter's Apprentice
:is no exception.
:
:Painter's Apprentice (PA) looks for a file called .../bin/paint.pri.  This

do you mean ...\bin\paint.pri ?  If so,  it's there.  Copied
Laserjet.pri to paint.pri.  put copies of it all over.  length = 227

:
:If paint.pri isn't found, then the Print entry on the menu gets grayed out.
:Same thing for the .ldi files used to load and save files.  If they're not
:found, then Load and Save are grayed out.

No problem loading and saving

:
:BTW, I should mention the only bug in PA.  The default extension is

It doesn't recover too gracefully from "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" either,
but I'm half convinced that's an NCR PC problem,  since I've noticed
it with other programs.

:.IMG, so if you try to save a file without explicitly giving an
:extension, you'll get a "IMG.LDI not found" error.  After I
:developed the file routines in PA, I found out that there were already
:two incompatible file formats that used the .IMG extension.  So, shortly
:(too shortly!) before releasing it, I changed the .IMG to .IPA, but failed
:to change the default...

HELP!
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Dan Mercer
Reply-To: mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)
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