JAMDISK 3 Copyright © 1991 JAM ------------------------------ This disk contains some of the programs reviewed in the Freely Distributable section of issues 8 and 9 of Just Amiga Monthly. In the PrinterDrivers drawer are some much requested printer drivers (if you are new to the Amiga, see the end of this text file for instructions on how to install a printer driver). Just Amiga Monthly (JAM) is a subscription-only magazine, costing £19.95 for 12 issues (£29.95 Europe, £49.95 Overseas). Cheques, Postal Orders and International Money Orders should be made payable to JAM. Just Amiga Monthly 75 Greatfields Drive Uxbridge UB8 3QN Phone: 0895 274449 Contacts: Jeff Walker, Steve Williams Note that this is a Jamdisk, not an issue of Just Amiga Monthly. JAM is a normal paper magazine, not a disk magazine. This Jamdisk is freely distributable provided it remains intact and unaltered, and this ReadMe file is not removed from it. Public Domain libraries are given permission to include this disk in their catalogues provided they charge no more for it than JAM itself does. JAM regrets that it cannot provide technical support for any of the software on its Jamdisks; the responsibility for this lies with the various programmers. Copyrights of all programs contained on this disk remain with the various authors and programmers. Installing a printer driver --------------------------- Printer drivers need to be copied into the `devs/printers' directory on the disk you boot from (your `boot' disk) -- that means into a directory called `printers' which is inside a directory called `devs'. The four printer drivers on this disk, and the paths to them, are: JAMDISK3:PrinterDrivers/Nec24Plus/Nec24Plus JAMDISK3:PrinterDrivers/Oki24Plus/Oki24Plus JAMDISK3:PrinterDrivers/PanasonicPlus/PanasonicPlus JAMDISK3:PrinterDrivers/Star24Plus/Star24Plus Leave your boot (Workbench) disk in DF0, it needs to be write-enabled. Open a Shell (i.e. double click on the Shell icon). At the prompt type: Copy JAMDISK3:PrinterDrivers/Nec24Plus/Nec24Plus TO DEVS:printers ^ ^ ^ | | | space space space It doesn't matter if you type it all in upper case or all in lower case, or mixed (as above). But make sure you put spaces only where they appear in the above line. Press the Return or Enter key only after typing the whole line. If you have only one floppy drive you will be requested to swap disks at certain points; simply do as you are asked. If the driver won't copy because the Workbench disk is full, you will have to delete something from that Workbench disk (any of the tools in the Utilities drawer will do). Ok, that copies the NEC driver over. If it's one of the others you want, simply replace the "Nec24Plus/Nec24Plus" bit with the equivalent path and filename for the driver you want (see the list above). This kind of file management is much easier to do with a `directory utility'. Speak to your local PD library about this. There are lots of them to choose from, the most popular is called SID. After you have copied the driver on to your boot disk you need to run the Printer program in the Prefs drawer. After running this you will see a list of drivers at top-right of the screen. Use the mouse and the arrow buttons to highlight the new driver, then click on the SAVE button. That's it. If you want to put the driver on to a disk other than the Workbench disk (the DPaint disk, for example) simply follow the instructions above but use the command line ... Copy TO :devs/printers ... replacing with the correct path and filename for the driver of your choice (see list above), and with the name of the disk you want to copy the driver on to. If you have followed these instructions and it "doesn't work", don't get angry, go make a cup of tea, come back and start again. Take it slowly this time. If after half-a-dozen tries you are still struggling, we would advise you to swear very loudly at the computer and call it a very nasty name -- `bugger' isn't strong enough, be imaginative, the nastier the name and the louder you shout it, the more likely it is you will succeed when you try (yet again) to install the printer driver. If it still "doesn't work" you should seriously consider buying a book on AmigaDOS. After buying it you should seriously consider reading it. Jeff 8-)