RE: ppd files?

Subject: RE: ppd files?
From: James Greenhalgh (jg1@sanger.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 10:34:49 EST

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On 08-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?

Thanks to all who replied, for anyone else who needs it, this under unix is
the easiest way:

tr "\015" "\012" < orig.ppd > temp.ppd
mv temp.ppd orig.ppd

I actually ran it through a foreach loop and did the whole directory - worked
fine.

james

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