Subject: Re: ppd files?
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 10:46:37 EST
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, James Greenhalgh wrote:
> Hi, I'm using .ppd files stolen directly from the printer descriptions folder
> of a mac in the office, and I'm getting this:
>
> Feb 8 14:35:34 storm papd[1658]: getppdent: line too long
>
> The descriptions in question were unpacked from the collection pointed at by
> one of the netatalk FAQs (the adobe set, as far as I know) - does anyone know
> if theres some kind of quick conversion I'm going to have to put them through,
> or a hack in the netatalk src?
The happens because of the cr/lf differences between macs and unix. I
wrote a simple perl script to fix this on my files. I'm attaching it to
this message...
Andy
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