RSLinx prof with A.I. series PLC-5 V8.05 for DDE

Hello,

I have already installed on a laptop the PLC-5 A.I. series software V8.05
with the communication module 1784-KF2/B on a Windows98 system.
I use this for programming the PLC5/25 processor.
Now I want working with DDE because I want to get some words of the PLC5/25
bringing to Excel.
So I installed RSLinx Professional V 2.42.
When I changed in the A.I. series the communication hardware to
"RSLinx Driver under Win95" I get an Error:
"PCL-Link-Error returned an error code of -102".
This means that I can not communicate to the PLC5/25.
Why can I not make this communication?
Other option in the communication hardware is: WinLinx Driver, but
this is also not working.
I know that I can use RSLogix5 but this is to expensive to buy it for our company
and other people can only work with A.I. series.
Who can help me?

Greetings,

mulderm

I found this error code described in this RA Knowledgebase document:

E6164 - PCL_Link_Error returned an error code of -102

I dont' know if RSLinx 2.42 still support Windows 98.. I don't have many customers trying to use both. Try the suggestions in that technote first.

Hello Ken,

I have found the knowledgebase.
But I still have the problem.
There is no icom.ini file for the AI series software PLC-5 V8.05 so I can't add the pad for RSLinx.
RSLinx prof V2.42 is working good on Win98.
But why can AI not accepted these version of RSLinx?
I have only the choice of "RSLinx driver under win95" and
"Winlinx driver".
Where can I download the Winlinx driver?

Greetings,

mulderm