Changes between Version 34 and Version 35 of HowTo


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Feb 18, 2011, 11:30:56 AM (13 years ago)
Author:
Alex Taylor
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Add warning about using prndrv -d

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    v34 v35  
    1414||Various formatting improvements and clarifications||2010-11-08||Alex Taylor||
    1515||Formatting improvements and clarifications, continued||2010-12-11||Alex Taylor||
     16||Added warning about the (hard-learned) pitfalls of {{{prndrv -d}}}||2011-02-17||Alex Taylor||
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    135136 * The Libc and GCC files are required support files (the GCC runtime is required by Splix).
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    137  * PRNDRV.EXE - a useful command line utility for listing installed printers and deleting those that are no longer wanted.
     138 * PRNDRV.EXE - a useful command line utility for listing installed printers and deleting those that are no longer wanted.  ('''Note:''' Be careful when using '{{{prndrv -d}}}', as it is very easy to accidentally delete the key {{{PM_DEVICE_DRIVERS -> ECUPS}}} [= ''path to ECUPS.DRV''] from OS2.INI - which will prevent all ECUPS printers from working, until you either fix the INI file manually or install a new ECUPS device.)
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    139140 * The eCups printer driver (ECUPS.DRV) is a customized version of the OS/2 !PostScript driver (PSCRIPT.DRV) which has most of the popular CUPS PPD files already included, and can be updated as new printers become supported in CUPS.  It also has a few tweaks and bugfixes to make it work better with CUPS.  (For this reason, using the original IBM !PostScript driver for CUPS printing is not really recommended, although it may happen to work for you.)