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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:06:07 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: removing outdated printer drivers (with really bad results !)

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In <3D8F816A.5C674924@pacbell.net>, on 09/23/02
at 12:09 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>These objects resisted the shredder, so I resorted to PRNDRV. In my
>case, it turned out to be a very dangerous utility. I specified for
>deletion only the printer drivers containing a particular name string
>(EPSONPRT.EPSON), and it appears to have taken out *every* printer driver
>on LPT2, including the LexMark ones which obviously don't. What's more,
>the printer objects *still* show up in the Printers folder, and still
>appear available for selection by various app.s, but each is now an empty
>husk that does nothing. I would have been much better off leaving things
>as they were, and just ignoring the outdated cluttter. Now I'm not sure
>what to do, other than to try to reinstall each printer driver over
>again, and hope that does not lead to any bad side effects.

What I would do is restore from the WPS backup I made just before
attempting to fix a problem I did not understand with a utility I didn't
understand.

That said, I've never seen prndrv do what you say it did to you. Either
you made some sort of typo, like forgetting to quote names with spaces in
them, or I've still got things to learn about prndrv.

In the future, I suggest you might ask more questions before forging
forward. Having the ouput of:

prndrv -l

from before you attempted the delete the drivers along with the commands
as you typed them might have been helpful.

The husks should not be there. I guess it's another indication that you
had some sort of WPS problems even before you attempted to delete the
drivers. Have you tried using unimaint or checkini to clean them up? Are
you aware that the WPS can mark objects as NODELETE and that you can use
Unimaint to clear the NODELETE flag?

Steven

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