Re: Running Protext
- From: Russell <Russell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 02:39:01 -0700
My Brother laser printer is so old I did not think it had a usb connector,
but it does! The printer is recognised by media edition and works
automatically with 'word' Unfortunately I cannot get it to work with protext.
The setup menu for protext requires that the printer port be specified, ie
series or parallel. I have tried both settings. Perhaps it doesn't like the
usb port. The driver I am using (HPLJ3) is generic and works with ME but
maybe this is not compatible with media edition. Any ideas?
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Russell
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
Russell wrote:.
Problem solved!
Great! Glad to hear it.
My protext folder on the hard drive was under desktop
which had not been stated in the directory route in the pif file.
Yes, as I thought, pretty much what the error message said.
But
I still don't understand why the programme would not run directly off
the cd disk as it does on the other computer. Anyway, many thanks for
your help. Now I have discovered that the computer does not have a
conventional printer socket and I don't know if my old printer is
connectable to a USB port and even if it is, whether it will work or
not. At the risk of trying your patience, is there a quick answer to
this?
By a "conventional printer socket," do you mean a parallel port? Most new
computers no longer come with one.
What printer do you have? If it has USB output, it should clearly be
visible.
You can buy an addin card for your computer with a parallel port on it. You
can also buy a parallel to USB adaptor. Neither of these is expensive, but
if you have to spend money anyway, you might just want to consider buying
an inexpensive new printer instead.
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Russell wrote:
Yes, but surely the directory is the same in each case if I am using
exactly the same disk which works on one machine (XPH) and not the
other (XPMC)? If this is not the case, then I am not sure what is
meant by 'the directory'.
It's highly unlikely that your two machines have the exact same
directory structure. I don't know exactly what directory it's
referring to (what "the" directory is in this case) but why not look
at the pif with notepad and see?
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Russell wrote:
Yes I have tried this. I get a message: 'Iinvalid start-up
directory, please check your pif file'.
Since these files work on XP Home when operated from the hard
disk, I am not sure how to interprete this.
It's not an issue of XP Home vs XP MCE. The pif file must be
referencing a directory that exists on your MCE machine, but not on
the XP Home one.
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Russell wrote:
On XP Home I start the programme by left clicking on the exe
file on a cd disk using windows explorer to list the files on
the disk. When I do this on XP Media the screen goes black for
a a fraction of a second and then reverts to the file listings
with no message. If I right click and click on run in the drop
down menu a message comes up:' A temporary file needed for
initialisation could not be created or could not be written.
Make sure that the directory path exists and disk space is
available.'
Have you tried copying the exe file and any associated files to a
hard drive folder and running it from there?
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If I try and start the programme from a shortcut on the desktop
I get a message as follows: Invalid start-up directory. Please
check your pif file.' These could be red herrings since I get
the first message in 'Home' as well when clicking run which is
why I did not put them in the original posting thinking that
the problem would be best approached by considering the
difference, whatever it is, between 'Media' and 'Home' that is
causing the difficulty.
Russell
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
Russell wrote:
Protext is an old dos based word processing programme by
Arnor. I managed to get it working on XP Home on a computer
bought last year by using a 16 bit version but using exactly
the same programme disk I cannot get it to run in XP Media
Edition on a computer I have just bought. Any ideas?
Please help us to help you. What does "cannot get it to run"
mean? What happens when you try? If you get an error message,
please quote it verbatim.
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