Help! - Extracting LPT.VXD from CAB files

[Michael Jorgensen]

I have Win95 v4.00.05a on diskettes (Service Pack 1 included). After
installation the Update Information Tool told me that UPD010 (Printer Port
Update) was invalid, saying that I had version 4.00.503 of driver lpt.vxd
when it should be version 4.00.951 (Service Pack 1). Fine...I figured it
wasn't installed properly in the beginning because I cancelled the printer
installation routine during setup at the time. Anyways, I am now trying to
correct this.

I extracted lpt.vxd from diskette number 3. However, extraction of this
using the cabview powertoy didin't work the way I wanted. Right-clicking on
the this lpt.vxd file does not bring up a version tab so I don't know what
the version number is at all now. Update Information Tool also tells me that
version info is not available.

How can I properly extract lpt.vxd from diskette 3 to get the version info?
Why wasn't .951 installed in the beginning anyways? (all the other SP1
updates were). Do I need to use the EXTRACT tool instead of CABview method?

Better yet...if someone out there does have a properly functioning 4.00.951
version of lpt.vxd, could you email it to me?

Thanks in advance,
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Michael Jorgensen
home: jorg...@globalserve.net
office: jorge...@aecl.ca
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| (_)/ (_) | -John Mellencamp-

[Michael Jorgensen]

Thats just it...I did extract it first. But still, no version number was
available after extraction.

--
Michael Jorgensen
home: jorg...@globalserve.net
office: jorge...@aecl.ca
| __o |"I know there's a balance,
| _`\<,_ | I see it when I swing past"
| (_)/ (_) | -John Mellencamp-

Alan Edwards <edw...@vision.net.au> wrote in article
<349f7517...@msnews.microsoft.com>...
> In microsoft.public.win95.setup, "Michael Jorgensen"

> The Cabview method is OK, but you must extract it first (to anywhere
> you like) before rightclicking on it. Cabview will extract it in
> exactly the same way as EXTRACT
>
> Mine (with OSR2) is 4.00.953
>
>

[Michael Jorgensen]

Thanks but I already lifted lpt.vxd 4.00.951 from my office PC today.
Incidentally, I had this problem on my office PC also but the it "went
away". I never intentionally installed the proper version so I'm not sure
howe I got it. Also, I extracted lpt.vxd from the win95cab files on my
office PC too, using CABview, to test out this problem at home with the lack
of a version number. The extraction at work went fine. The file was
extracted with a version tab. But...I is version 4.00.950, not 4.00.951. The
version I lifted from windows\system subdir to take home was OK though
(4.00.951). All very weird. Esp. sice my W95 diskettes are version 4.00.95a
and therefire by definition Service Release 1 and I should then have the
correct version.

Many questions arise from this...Thanks for your help. Hopefully you could
help me further with this puzzle?

Michael Jorgensen
home: jorg...@globalserve.net
office: jorge...@aecl.ca
| __o |"I know there's a balance,
| _`\<,_ | I see it when I swing past"
| (_)/ (_) | -John Mellencamp-

Alan Edwards wrote in message <349bba44...@msnews.microsoft.com>...
>In microsoft.public.win95.setup, "Michael Jorgensen"

><jorge...@aecl.ca> wrote:
>
>>Thats just it...I did extract it first. But still, no version number was
>>available after extraction.
>

>Strange?
>I have been sent a 4.00.951 version of lpt.vxd this morning by someone
>who misread the post and sent it to me instead. I have no doubt you
>will also get this file sent to you as I have replied to the poster.
>The file sent certainly has the version number in Properties.
>I can pass this one on if he does not send it.
>
>...Alan

[Kestutis Sipavicius]

Lpt.vxd 4.00.950 is the original Win95 version.
Lpt.vxd 4.00.951 is installed by Service Pack 1, when Win95 -> Win95a.
Never heard of diskettes 950a.

Michael Jorgensen escreveu na mensagem ...

>Thanks but I already lifted lpt.vxd 4.00.951 from my office PC today.

Also, I extracted lpt.vxd from the win95cab files. But...I is version
4.00.950, not 4.00.951. All very weird. Esp. sice my W95 diskettes are