From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.18] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.18] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2241992 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:06:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4B84A5C2.8040001@2rosenthals.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:06:26 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Project Question References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Mark... On 02/23/10 07:37 pm, madodel thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> Hi, Jordan... >> >> On 02/23/10 12:55 pm, J R FOX thus wrote : >>> --- On Tue, 2/23/10, OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Copy the Win32 driver & inf to the newly created genmac\driver >>>> \WRAPPER_168C_001C directory. Copy the nif you edited into the nif >>>> directory (and your \IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\MACS directory, if you like). >>>> >>> >>> For some reason, I was thinking that there was some _other_ project >>> going on whose objective was to be able to use Win NIC drivers in >>> eCS, just as the goal of eCups is to do this for Win printer >>> drivers. But, is that what GenMac actually is ? >>> >>> >> Indeed, currently, GenMAC is the *only* project for this, although it >> is *not* open source. There is quite a bit of discussion going on >> concerning a successor project, as the GenMAC author has stated that >> he has effectively discontinued development. >> >> Also, don't confuse eCUPS with the Win32PRN project. The later was >> supposed to be a wrapper for Windows printer drivers to install under >> OS/2. eCUPS is a port of CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) and does >> not rely on Windows drivers at all. Instead, CUPS relies on >> Postscript Page Definition (ppd) files, and is the standard method >> for printing to UNIX/Linux printers. > > And CUPS has the benefit of being owned and updated by Apple for use > on Mac OS X so it will continue to be updated. :-) > I learn something new every day (or at least I should). Thanks. http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L476+TFAQ+Q Who knew? ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------