Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi Mark, Andy,
>
> In response to Andy's posting, just as your reply arrived, I was just 
> about to post the following:
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> That was the only change that I noticed!
>>
>> Looking more carefully at that directory I now notice the last write 
>> time for auxprint.pak is from around that time I first made the 
>> attempts and looking inside it there's definitely a relevant entry at 
>> the beginning of the file which commences "IBM DDPAK
V1.0", followed 
>> by nulls from offset 0000000e to 0000002b, then 4 bytes containing 
>> entries of 0x01,0x00,0x01,0x00, followed by more nulls at offset 
>> 00000030-00000033, followed by "LaserWriter-Select 310 v52_5", 
>> followed by mainly binary data and finishing up with the list of 
>> standard fonts.
> the size of that auxprint.pak is 1,916 bytes, the PPD file was 11,489 
> bytes.
>
> I had already used Alex Taylor's instpdr.exe, from Betazone, 
> "installed" as per included directions.
>
> Will try again selecting from drivers other than those included with 
> eComStation, and advise outcome.
>
> Regards,
> Mike 
Well I just tried it yet again - from scratch. Below is the output from 
running instpdr.exe:

Merging EAs ...
Validating PPD encoding ...
  PPD ENCODING CONVERSION UTILITY VERSION 1.00
  COPYRIGHT (C) IBM CORP. 2001. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
    CONVERTING FILE J:\DESKTOP\APPLE\APLW3101.PPD: (COPYING ONLY) OK
  DONE


Importing PostScript Printer Definitions ...
  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: ok
    requiredfiles list: ok
    devicenames list: ok
    found 1 files to process
    ppd list initialized
    PAK table of contents initialized
  initalize converter
    PPD converter initialized
  READY, STARTING TO CONVERT
  converting APLW3101.PPD : ........ OK (LaserWriter-Select 310 v52_5)
  done: 1 devices converted, 0 failed
  FINISHED, SHUTTING DOWN
  done


Updating driver table ...

The following printers have been imported into the PostScript driver:
  LaserWriter-Select 310 v52_5

Select "OK" to close this window.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

reading the actual HELP from the application button it says, in part :

Import PostScript Printer Definition
Allows you to add support for a new PostScript printer to the PSCRIPT 
PrinterPak driver by importing a vendor-supplied PPD file.

Note that all imported PPD files are saved to a subdirectory of the 
local repository. Whenever you import a new PPD file, all of the saved 
PPD files are automatically re-imported along with it. This is necessary 
because the PrinterPak file containing imported drivers (AUXPRINT.PAK) 
needs to be recreated from scratch every time an import is performed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well -- no subdirectory was ever created - the PPD file was not 
duplicated within the repository tree.
Not knowing what is the basis of the naming of that subdirectory (this 
under eCSV2.0RC4 BTW), I can't even create a subdirectory of 
\os2\dll\pscript\ and put a copy of the PPD file there! :-(

I'd send a cc to Alex Taylor, but have mislaid his Japan e-mail address, 
where he has the 50mbps link via Yahoo!]

Regards,
Mike





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