From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:56 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1524 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 26 July 2007 Number 1524 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Printing to PDF : Glenn Montgomery 2 Re: Printing to PDF : Paul Smedley" 3 Re: Printing to PDF : Glenn Montgomery 4 Re: Printing to PDF : Paul Smedley" 5 Re: Printing to PDF : Ed Durrant 6 The Australian Government at work : Ian Manners" 7 Re: The Australian Government at work : Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:15:28 +0000 From: Glenn Montgomery Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Hi Peter/All, thanks for the advice on ePDF. It works wonderfully well. Certainly look forward too to the possibilities that the CUPS development will bring for the whole community. Cheers Glenn Peter Moylan wrote: > Glenn Montgomery wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an os/2 compatible >> printer so I was thinking if I just printed to PDF then at least I >> could use my windoze machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my >> question is how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to PDF? > Look for epDF on Hobbes. It's aPostscript-to-PDF converter, and it also > includes a > printer driver to which you ca print from any applicatio. From memory, > there's also adaemon that will take the output of the printer driver and > feed it into ePDF. > > i've forgottten the details of that part - it might be aseparate package > that yiou have to download - but a bit of googling on ePDF (or just a > Hobbes search) should resolve that. > > Sorry abou all the typos. I'm trying to typ[e one-handed while on hold > on the phone. I must have heard "thank you for your patiece" about 20 > times. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:38:49 +0930 From: "Paul Smedley" Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Hi Glenn, On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:15:28 +0000 Glenn Montgomery wrote: > thanks for the advice on ePDF. It works wonderfully >well. Certainly look forward too to the possibilities >that the CUPS development will bring for the whole >community. Incidentally - what printer do you have? Cheers, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:47:59 +0000 From: Glenn Montgomery Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Hi Paul, My faithful Lexmark 5000 inkjet died (lasted for years) a little while ago, so I then purchased a Kyocera FS-720 laser (I thought I'd looked into it but :-[ not well enough). This turned out to be a bit of a lemon as it only works through Windows (host-based instead of not!) I sent out a message a while ago on the list which informed me of such. So apparently I need to look for another which isn't host based etc etc. You know, cheap laser, good quality, don't need colour. So I guess a good starting place would be the compatibility list for your CUPS project?? Unless CUPS goes far enough to get host-based printers to print :-\ ... Cheers, Glenn Paul Smedley wrote: > Hi Glenn, > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:15:28 +0000 > Glenn Montgomery wrote: >> thanks for the advice on ePDF. It works wonderfully well. Certainly >> look forward too to the possibilities that the CUPS development will >> bring for the whole community. > > Incidentally - what printer do you have? > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:47:34 +0930 From: "Paul Smedley" Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Hi Glenn, On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:47:59 +0000 Glenn Montgomery wrote: > My faithful Lexmark 5000 inkjet died (lasted for years) >a little while ago, so I then purchased a Kyocera FS-720 >laser (I thought I'd looked into it but :-[ not well >enough). This turned out to be a bit of a lemon as it >only works through Windows (host-based instead of not!) I >sent out a message a while ago on the list which informed >me of such. So apparently I need to look for another >which isn't host based etc etc. You know, cheap laser, >good quality, don't need colour. So I guess a good >starting place would be the compatibility list for your >CUPS project?? Unless CUPS goes far enough to get >host-based printers to print :-\ ... CUPS (well Gutenprint which uses CUPS) supported printer list is at http://gutenprint.sourceforge dot net/p_Supported_Printers.php3 Kycoera FS-820 works perfectly with the laserjet driver here (and with CUPS). Cheers, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:08:14 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Brother HL2040 - I paid AU$79 for mine. You should still be able to get it for < AU$100. (use the HL1250 OS/2 driver from the IBM Laserjet series driver pack). Cheers/2 Ed. Glenn Montgomery wrote: > Hi Paul, > > My faithful Lexmark 5000 inkjet died (lasted for years) a little while > ago, so I then purchased a Kyocera FS-720 laser (I thought I'd looked > into it but :-[ not well enough). This turned out to be a bit of a > lemon as it only works through Windows (host-based instead of not!) I > sent out a message a while ago on the list which informed me of such. > So apparently I need to look for another which isn't host based etc > etc. You know, cheap laser, good quality, don't need colour. So I > guess a good starting place would be the compatibility list for your > CUPS project?? Unless CUPS goes far enough to get host-based printers > to print :-\ ... > > Cheers, > Glenn > > Paul Smedley wrote: >> Hi Glenn, >> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:15:28 +0000 >> Glenn Montgomery wrote: >>> thanks for the advice on ePDF. It works wonderfully well. Certainly >>> look forward too to the possibilities that the CUPS development will >>> bring for the whole community. >> >> Incidentally - what printer do you have? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Paul. > >> >> > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:20:08 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: The Australian Government at work https://www.donotcall.gov.au/ The Australian Government at work, makes you wonder about the people that work in Government IT...... http://www.dnsstuff dot com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=donotcall.gov.au After emailing the donotcall site via the 'Enquiries' form a couple of weeks ago, I did receive a response after a couple of days and I'm told that no one else has a problem with receiving the verify email and that there system is working fine. Interestly, the reply I received back was from a different mail server at servicestream dot com dot au I didnt have any problems with the system right at the start either but now cannot receive email from them when I tried registering some other family members. gmail, hotmail, comkal dot net, os2site dot com, and virtual dot net dot au all failed to receive anything but finally scored with my iprimus dot com dot au email address. Probably should have looked at the dnsstuff website first and I would have found the problem :-) "mail2.donotcall.gov.au claims to be invalid hostname" which is another way of telling my filters (and weasel) that "I'm bogus so dont accept email from me ;-) Guess hotmail and gmail also agree. This error is I assume generated from there internal email server not having its host name correctly setup. Over the years I've noticed how clueless a lot of Government (or Government IT contractors) are in basic networking and setup skills, any wonder the politicians are so clueless ? There is also the possibility that maybe the ACMA doesnt want anymore people to signup for the donot call register, in that case I would have to take it all back as its a good way to do it :-) Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ Chairman Bill, the "Joe Isuzu" of software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:47:51 +1000 (EST) From: "Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" Subject: Re: The Australian Government at work >http://www.dnsstuff dot com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=donotcall.gov.au I ran that for my domain, and the results were not pretty! Does anyone know how to configure the IBM DNS (Bind 4.9 based) to no recurse for the entire planet? -Chris WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2. Voice: +61-3-9395-1504 Internet: chrisg at warpspeed dot com dot au FAX: +61-3-9395-7633 Web Page: http://www.warpspeed dot com dot au Postal: WarpSpeed Computers, PO Box 4293, Hoppers Crossing DC, VIC 3029, AUSTRALIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------