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Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:28:29 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: printer driver meltdown

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In <3D90C0BA.98B00680@pacbell.net>, on 09/24/02
at 10:59 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>That's all water under the bridge at this point. However, the listing
>function seemed to bring up a mention of every installed printer, from
>both par. ports.

You might consider posting the current results of prndrv -l

>But note that the pristine install of eCS in another partition also
>displayed certain anomalies, most notably the
>"folders-showing-where-some-drive-icons-ought-to-be" one seen in the W4
>partition.

I would tend to ignore this. It's mixing apples and oranges unless you
are considering hardware issues. The two partitions have distinct .INI's
with no relation to each other (hopefully).

>I thought there might be some shortcut fix for these leftover objects, so

There are several ways to make the objects go away. prndrv should have
done the job painlessly, but something when wrong.

>print job _may_ emerge from that printer. I guess what I need right now
>is a step-by-step action list for killing these zombie drivers, and
>redoing them from scratch. (Or trying a possibly out-of-date WPS backup,

The driver definitions are defined in several applications in os2sys.ini,
but explaining the relationships is a bit too complex for e-mail.

What's needed to delete the settings for all the corrupted printer
objects. It probably would not hurt to delete the printer driver dll's
too.

You might want to consider Wed's IRC chat session. We could walk through
the process.

Steven

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