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- From: collet@scripps.edu (Thomas Collet)
- Subject: Re: Current (best) HP Deskwriter driver(was:Bus errors with HP3.1)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.154141.25059@riscsm.scripps.edu>
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- Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
- References: <1992Aug17.205246.16082@riscsm.scripps.edu> <Bt6GB6.IAx@unx.sas.com>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:41:41 GMT
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- In article <Bt6GB6.IAx@unx.sas.com> cole@nepenthe.unx.sas.com (Tom Cole) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Aug17.205246.16082@riscsm.scripps.edu>,
- > collet@scripps.edu (Thomas Collet) writes:
- >
- >|> There was a thread here a while ago on mysterious errors
- >|> in the bus (?) caused by the HP Printmonitor in the HP
- >|> printer software 3.1 for the Deskwriter.
- >
- >Sorry if this is on a thread I missed (REAL short "retention span"
- >on our news system), but what is the current version of the HP
- >Deskwriter driver that I should have? The version of the driver
- >that came with my Deskwriter last Christmas is "A.02.00", copyright
- >1989.
- >
- >Sounds like this ain't the current beast, since I have no PrintMonitor
- >capability for this printer.... how do I go about getting an upgrade?
- >And as an aside, should I have gotten notification from HP about the
- >new drivers, or is news of the new drivers found here in net-dom...?
- >
- >Feel free to e-mail me any answers you might have if this is too
- >obvious to clutter the net with followups. Many thanks in advance...
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >Tom Cole, SAS Institute Inc. VMS R&D cole@nepenthe.unx.sas.com
- >
-
- The version I have is 3.1 and includes a printmonitor. However,
- I may have been wrong about fixing the problem. Switching to
- gatekeeper 1.2.6 greatly alleviated the problem, but last night
- I got the first bomb in a week; this contrasts to one to two
- bombs a day before.
-
- Thomas
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