RE: [WinMac] Virtual PC

John Santora(bbstenor[at]home.com)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:29:33 -0400

>===== Original Message From "The Windows-MacOS cooperation list"
<winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> =====
>I hope that someone can help me.
>My accountant has advised me to use QuickBooks Pro.
>I must use Virtual PC to use this program.
>I am having tremendous trouble getting the program to print through my Epson
>1520 printer.

I have been using QBPro6 on a PBG3/250 with VPC and Win95 for about 6 months.
You have to follow Connectix's support page instructions "to the letter" in
setting up printers through VPC.

How is the 1520 connected to the Mac? Serial, USB, or Ethernet? If USB, I
think Win95/VPC 2.x doesn't support USB. You need at least Win98 and maybe VPC
3, which was just released. If it's serial or Ethernet, then you may have to
experiment with more generic Win95 drivers for the 1520. Go to the Connectix
Support site at http://www.connectix.com/support/index.html and search for
"Virtual PC" and "print" -- there are at least 19 articles there.

I have a Canon BJC-80 which prints through the Win95 BJC-70 driver, and an
HP-LJ6MP which uses the ancient Win95 Apple Laserwriter II driver. I couldn't
get the HP to print with any other driver, including HP's and Adobe's Win95
generic PS drivers.

>Also, I cannot get windows to recognize my ZIP drive.

You can't see Zip or Jaz drives as the C: or D: drive. However, you can mount
them as Shared Folders in VPC (from Preferences at startup, or from within VPC
by clicking on the Folders button) and then see them in Network Neighborhood
or Windows Explorer the same as any "networked" drive.

I routinely use my Zip as drive G: (C: and D: are VPC container files, E: is
the CD-ROM, F: is a shared folder on my Mac HD, accessible to both MacOS and
Win95, and G: is either the Zip or Jaz, as needed.

>Any suggestions?
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Nancy
>

Hope this helps.

John Santora
Toronto, Canada
mailto:bbstenor@home.com

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