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    1 A CUPS and eCS (OS/2) How To: Revision 1 14/08/2008
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    3 Author: Peter Brown
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    12 Brief Preamble
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    14 Why install CUPS? - and what is it?
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    16 List of required software
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    18 Brief description of the software packages
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     2== A CUPS and eCS (OS/2) How To ==
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    5979The object of the exercise is to end up with an eCS(OS/2) postscript printer object that prints using CUPS.
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