afaiello
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Can someone help me get the file ibmproxl.prd for msword 5.5 so I can set up my IBM Proprinter II 4201-002?
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IBM driver for proprinter
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afaiello
Experienced Member
Maybe someone has some old Microsoft word diskettes that they can get the file from in a legal matter. I do not need the whole diskette, just the file.
MikeS
Veteran Member
I assume you can extract it.
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afaiello
Experienced Member
It's a .pr$ file not a .prd. That's the problem I was having installing that free Word 5.5 download from Microsoft. It gave all the printer files in .pr$ format. When I try installing the printer on Word, it cannot use that file. Is there a special way of converting pr$ into prd?
per
Veteran Member
It's a .pr$ file not a .prd. That's the problem I was having installing that free Word 5.5 download from Microsoft. It gave all the printer files in .pr$ format. When I try installing the printer on Word, it cannot use that file. Is there a special way of converting pr$ into prd?
You have to get the EXPAND command. It should be on one of the installation disks. If you can't find it, there should be one on the DOS installation disks (version 5 and 6.x). When you got the expand program in your path, type
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EXPAND ibmproxl.pr$ ibmproxl.prdafaiello
Experienced Member
This is very odd. I used the expand command off of windows 2000, it expanded it into the prd form, copied it to a floppy, put it into the IBM AT and when I tried choosing that file to setup the printer in Word 5.5, it tells me that file is not a word printer file. PRD is a word printer file so I have no clue why it's doing that.
per
Veteran Member
This is very odd. I used the expand command off of windows 2000, it expanded it into the prd form, copied it to a floppy, put it into the IBM AT and when I tried choosing that file to setup the printer in Word 5.5, it tells me that file is not a word printer file. PRD is a word printer file so I have no clue why it's doing that.
The version of EXPAND following Windows is another version and will not work with files based on the DOS version. Try to get a copy of DOS version 5 or 6 (installation disks).
afaiello
Experienced Member
I got it. I have nearly 650 5.25 floppies and I finally found a WORKING diskette with dos 6 on it. Word found it perfectly. Now I have all these discs that I can use as table coasters.
MikeS
Veteran Member
Sorry; when will I learn to stop making assumptions... ;-)
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