cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (08/03/88)
I just found out that the PostScript driver supplied by Lotus in the 1-2-3 Value Pack can't be used with a network! Just people I know at National Institute of Health tell me that it is a loadable device driver that takes output to an LPT port, and sends it out to a serial port -- no option to send it to an LPT port. As a consequence, it isn't useable on any network -- it sounds like you would HAVE to use the serial port on any PostScript printer you wanted to to use with Lotus. How stupid ARE those guys at Lotus? Clayton E. Cramer
David_J_Buerger@cup.portal.com (08/05/88)
I spent half a day trying to install the Value Pak PostScript driver. Couldn't get it to work. I went through two different Lotus support people and they could barely understand the issues. Needless to say, they couldn't get it to work either. Don't buy this package for the PostScript driver. In fact, it isn't worth buying at all. Who needs more ram resident programs mucking with the AT? :*)
jfh@cup.portal.com (08/05/88)
The Lotus 1-2-3 value pack is free, so it's not a question of it not being worth the cost. I found it easy to install, and it did work. I took it back out, though (the PostScript support part, anyway), because I didn't want to have memory taken up by a program I would rarely use. I think that a non-resident device driver would have been a much better approach. Perhaps everyone at Lotus has computers with lots and lots of RAM, so this problem doesn't occur to them.
brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) (08/07/88)
In article <7874@cup.portal.com> David_J_Buerger@cup.portal.com writes:
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<I spent half a day trying to install the Value Pak PostScript driver.
<Couldn't get it to work. I went through two different Lotus support
<people and they could barely understand the issues. Needless to say,
<they couldn't get it to work either. Don't buy this package for the
<PostScript driver. In fact, it isn't worth buying at all. Who needs
<more ram resident programs mucking with the AT? :*)
I too couldn't get it to work and called Lotus. She didn't have the answer
than and because I was leaving for the day, she would find out the answer
and call me back. Well, she did the next day, with the answer.
The driver that lotus gives you is a DOS LPT1: driver. You need to configure
the printer output as DOS LPT1:, not printer LPT1. Lotus talks directly
to the line printer port and the correct way uses the DOS BIOS calls, which
the added driver needs to intercept to get it to the correct COM port.
I hope this helps.
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