Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of HowTo

Timestamp:

Apr 11, 2009, 9:17:36 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

edurrant

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HowTo

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 CUPS consists of several packages that work together to provide postscript printing on raster printers
-  (CUPS, Ghostscript, Gutenprint, eCUPS, Cups.pdr and Splix(for Xerox printers only)). All of these packages should be expanded under the root directory of a drive (doesn't have to be the boot drive) 
-   - so once expanded you will have the following directories off the root directory:
-   CUPS
-   GUTENPRINT
-   GS\GSN.nn  (where N.nn is the Ghostscript version number e.g. 8.64) - note you may need to create the \GS directory depending upon                                                                      the contents of the GS zip file you download.
-  
-The Libc files are required support files put these in a directory in the libpath - e.g. ecs\dll or os2\dll 
-
-The eCUPS printer driver is an alternative OS/2 pscript.drv package and has most of the popular CUPS PPD files already included. (This file should be put into a directory under \OS2\DLL - my suggestion is \OS2\DLL\CUPS - you will then point the printer install dialog at this directory during the install process)
-
-The eCUPS printer port provides the "hook up" between the OS/2 Printer Object created from the eCUPS printer driver and the CUPS printer
- ( copy cupslpr.exe into \tcpip\bin and cups.pdr into \os2\dll)
+  (CUPS, Ghostscript, Gutenprint, eCUPS, Cups.pdr and Splix(for Xerox printers only)). 
+   
+The Libc files are required support files 
+
+The eCUPS printer driver is an alternative OS/2 pscript.drv package and has most of the popular CUPS PPD files already included. 
+
+The eCUPS printer port driver provides the "hook up" between the OS/2 Printer Object created from the eCUPS printer driver and the CUPS printer. That is OS/2 knows how to talk to ports that printers are connected to. in this case we are implementing another port to be avialable along side the parallel printer port, the network (lpr) printer port, the serial (RS232) printer port and so on. This driver allow the OS/2 print "engine" to talk to the Cups daemon which it turn talks to the physical printer either over the network or over a USB connection. (note we don't use the OS/2 USB Printer port driver when using a USB attached printer with CUPS - we always use the CUPS port driver and then let the CUPS daemon do the physical IO). 
+ 
 
 PRNDRV.EXE - a useful command line utility for listing installed printers and deleting those that are no longer wanted
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 The libc0*.dll files should be put into either \ecs\dll or \os2\dll 
 
-The basic CUPS Install consists of unzipping the packages:
+The basic CUPS Install consists of unzipping the packages under the root directory of a drive (doesn't have to be the boot drive):
 
   * Ghostscript needs to be unzipped into \gs - so that you end up with for example, x:\gs\gs8.64
 
-  * cups-1.3.9*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT
-
-  * gutenprint*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT
+  * cups-1.3.9*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT creating the \CUPS directory
+
+  * gutenprint*.zip needs to be unzipped into ROOT creating the \Gutenprint directory
 
 
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-Other files are unzipped later as/when/if they are required
+Other files are unzipped later as they are required as follows:
+
+The eCUPS printer driver should be put into a directory under \OS2\DLL - my suggestion is \OS2\DLL\CUPS - you will then point the printer install dialog at this directory during the install process.
+
+The eCUPS printer port driver - copy cupslpr.exe into \tcpip\bin and cups.pdr into \os2\dll
+
+
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