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Tool: paperdrv 1.0 · 88 KB · 06 Mar 1998 · md5 000000000000 · no source · back to its row on the shelf

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Placeholder page. These are the standard install steps, kept in the shape this shelf uses so nobody has to invent them twice. Anything in [brackets] is a value nobody has written down yet, and the tool-specific warnings have not been collected. Replace the brackets before this page is handed to anyone outside the desk.

paperdrv 1.0

88 KB · 06 Mar 1998 · md5 000000000000 · no source · shelf 4

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Drove dot-matrix forms printers. Two clinics were still on 1994 hardware in 2011; both have moved on. Kept because the build is 88 KB and the alternative is re-deriving it.

paperdrv /q1 /forms /com2
no 64-bit build, and none coming

Note from the shelf row: 16-bit DOS, straight off the floppy image.

Before you install

  • Runs on: DOS. the application must be 4.0.7 to 4.1.6.
  • Space: about 88 KB for the download, plus [WORKING SPACE] while it runs. Fits on a floppy, which is how it travels.
  • Rights: an ordinary user account; no elevation and no sudo for the tool itself
  • Know first: [PREREQUISITE] — whoever writes this page up properly should say here what has to be true before the tool will run at all.

Download and verify

Take the build for your platform from the [SHARE] and check it against the digest on the shelf row before you unpack anything. The digest is also printed below.

FC /B DISK1\*.ZIP paperdrv-1.0-dos.zip

Expected: 000000000000. The digest was never recorded — the image predates the habit, and the only copy left is the floppy.

Install

Copy it into place and put it on the path. Nothing here installs a service or a scheduled task, so there is no installer to run and nothing to reboot.

DOS

Copy the files and add them to the path in AUTOEXEC.BAT:

:: from the C:\ prompt, with the floppy or image mounted
COPY A:\PAPERDRV\*.* C:\TOOLS\PAPERDRV\
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\TOOLS\PAPERDRV
PAPERDRV /v

Check it worked

Check the version first, then run the one command the tool exists for. If the output matches, it is working:

PAPERDRV /v
paperdrv /q1 /forms /com2
no 64-bit build, and none coming

Expected output is the line shown in the block above; anything else means [TO DO: write the failure list].

Removing it

Delete the folder and drop the path entry. The tool keeps no state of its own, so there is nothing to unregister.

DELTREE C:\TOOLS\PAPERDRV

If it goes wrong

  • [KNOWN FAILURE 1] — the usual fixes for this tool have not been written down yet. Add them the second time somebody hits one.
  • Wrong error number or a fault you cannot name: run the tool's own diagnostic first (shelf row), then the removal steps.
  • Before any repair that writes to a store, take the export — backoff is the tool for it.
  • If a tool on this shelf is being asked to fix something it was never written for, stop and ask the desk rather than reaching for a force flag.