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#Canon BJC600 Driver

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#208256From: Lyndon BaughAug 14, 1995 7:45 PM
I got bogged down on the "then you decompress it" part. Got file onto hard drive, and CLI snears at my attempts to do anything to it. More specific "then you decompress it advice?
#208298From: LEPIDO R VARGASAug 15, 1995 12:23 AM
put lha x filename.lha make sure lha is in c:
#208441From: Asha DeVelderAug 15, 1995 8:09 PM
Lyndon, <Got file onto hard drive, and CLI snears at my attempts to do anything to it. More specific "then you decompress it advice?> You will need LHA. It can be downloaded from the AmigaUsers library Achivers/crunchers as LHA138.run. It is self extracting. From a cli line, in the directory where you have this file type: LHA138.run It will unpack itself. Copy the executable (LHA) to your c: directory. Then change directories to where you have the Cannon driver file and type: lha x filename.lha ("filename" being the exact name of the compressed file including the extension) It should unpack just fine. From there, you copy the driver into Devs/printers. There is a program in Prefs that will allow you to set this driver as the default printer driver for your system. It should then work. Hope this is the help you needed! Asha @}–`–,-
#209085From: Wolf FaustAug 20, 1995 2:47 AM
Dear Asha, please never copy a driver to the printer directory yourself unless there is no other way. Your recommendation doesn't work with the Canon drivers as they are compressed. Anyway: it's much easier to install a Canon driver: 1. Download the CanonDisk. 2. You also need a lzh compatible decompression program like lha, lharc, lz and whatever… 3. Decompress the driver disk. Usualy "lha x CAN31B.LZH" will work. 4. Use the Workbench and click on the installation icon available after decompression. 5. Just follow the instructions given by the installation disk and readme file. You don't need the shell except for decompression of the driverdisk. (note: there are decompression utilities that do no require you to us the shell…).
#209198From: Asha DeVelderAug 20, 1995 9:32 PM
Wolf, Thanks for correcting my mistake. The only drivers I've ever installed were for the Oki-20 and the HP500C, both of which simply get copied to the proper directory. I'll keep this in mind in the future! Asha @}–`–,-