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from: Andy Willis
date: 2008-04-20 19:52:00
subject: Re: seeking printer recommendation (network, postscript)

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Andy Willis wrote:
>> Blast!  I thought I had pasted that url in the first time:
>> http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/AddPpdFiles
>> Andy
>>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Herewith the results of following the instructions on the wiki:
>
> OS/2      Ctrl+Esc = Window List       Type HELP = help
> Mon 21/04/2008  7:58:20.49 AEST
> [512MB RAM Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR]ppdenc -d pre-ppd post-ppd
> PPD encoding conversion utility version 1.00
> Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 2001. All rights reserved.
>    searching PPD files in directory pre-ppd\
>    found 1 files to process
>    converting file LWS310.PPD: (copying only) OK
> done
>
> Mon 21/04/2008  7:58:25.57 AEST
> [512MB RAM Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR]
>
> .... re-downloaded ps30827en.zip
>
> Mon 21/04/2008  8:24:49.21 AEST
> [512MB RAM Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR]pin ppd post-ppd driver\pscript.drv
> PostScript resource packaging utility version 1.00
> Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 2000,2001. All rights reserved.
>
> Producing Printer Device PAK
> reading driver extended attributes
>    success
>    extended attributes read
>    checking driver version: EA item was not found
> fail
> fail
>
> Mon 21/04/2008  8:25:18.61 AEST
> [512MB RAM Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR]dir * /s
>
> The volume label in drive Z is ST_10_save.
> The Volume Serial Number is 16AE:890A.
>
> Directory of Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR
>
> 21/04/08  8:24     437 ----  .
> 21/04/08  7:15       0 ----  ..
> 21/04/08  8:24     432 ----  driver
> 31/01/05 11:20        141,418      0 a---  pin.exe
> 31/01/05 11:20         10,100      0 a---  pin.sym
> 21/04/08  7:58     434 ----  post-ppd
> 31/01/05 11:20         58,223      0 a---  ppdenc.exe
> 31/01/05 11:20          5,236      0 a---  ppdenc.sym
> 21/04/08  7:44     433 ----  pre-ppd
> 26/01/05 14:31         13,347      0 a---  readme
>         10 file(s)     228,324 bytes used
>
> Directory of Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR\driver
>
> 21/04/08  8:24     432 ----  .
> 21/04/08  8:24     437 ----  ..
> 31/01/05 11:21      4,666,084     34 a---  printer1.pak
> 31/01/05 11:32        806,550      0 a---  pscript.drv
> 31/01/05 11:21         18,968     32 a---  pscript.ea
> 31/01/05 11:20         49,169     33 a---  pscript.hlp
> 31/01/05 11:21         39,128     33 a---  pscript.lst
> 31/01/05 11:21         37,956     33 a---  pscript.sym
>          8 file(s)   5,617,855 bytes used
>
> Directory of Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR\post-ppd
>
> 21/04/08  7:58     434 ----  .
> 21/04/08  8:24     437 ----  ..
> 21/04/08  7:58         13,104      0 a---  LWS310.PPD
>          3 file(s)      13,104 bytes used
>
> Directory of Z:\PSCRIPTDRVR\pre-ppd
>
> 21/04/08  7:44     433 ----  .
> 21/04/08  8:24     437 ----  ..
> 18/04/08 20:02         13,104    368 a---  LWS310.PPD
>          3 file(s)      13,104 bytes used
> Total files listed:
>         24 file(s)     5,872,387 bytes used
>                      3,790,589 K bytes free
>
> (all relevant drives are JFS)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
The EAs in pscript.ea are not associated to pscript.drv.  The easiest 
way is to copy the pscript.drv from boot\dll\pscript as it should have 
the EAs.
Andy

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