RE: Printer Drivers

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From: Saul Traiger
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 19:16

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In article <41345@cci632.UUCP> lab@cci632.UUCP (Len Bauer) writes:
>
>  Windows 3.0 was installed for me, by Gateway, when I bought their machine.
>I am now trying to add my Panasonic printer to Windows, but when I view the
>list of available printer drivers, I only have the 'Generic/ Text only' driver.
>
>  In my documentation and also in a third party book, I am led to believe that
>more drivers than the Generic one, are supplied by Windows.  Is this true, or
>am I hallucinating?

You are not hallucinating.

>
>  Also, is there a particular file that I can reinstall from the distribution
>disks to get all of the available drivers back?

The file which has the driver information is setup.inf. Sounds like somehow
you wound up with an abbreviated version of this. This happened to me when
I installed special video drivers after installing Windows. I think, (but
don't quote me on this) that the setup.inf file should be around 49K in length.
>
>  Thanks for any and all help.
Good luck.

Saul Traiger
Cognitive Science Program
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA 90041
traiger@oxy.edu

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From: traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger)
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Subject: RE: Printer Drivers
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Date: 26 Oct 90 19:16:52 GMT
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