Date:  Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:19:50 -0400
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Preview of CUPS 1.3.7

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From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM at DESPAMos2voice.org>

According to Paul Smedley's UNIX ports for OS/2 and eComStation website 
http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) has been updated again to a preview of 
1.3.7.  Also includes GPL Ghostscript 8.62 and Gutenprint 5.1.98.2 which 
were the same in the last release.  More information can be found  at 
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort

The main CUPS site (non-OS/2) is http://www.cups.org/
"CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. 
It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned and maintained 
by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. It is the standard 
printing system in Mac OS® X and most Linux® distributions.

CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing 
print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript 
Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world 
printing."

DOWNLOAD [Note: This is a 51 MB file.  And at that it only includes the 
language Gutenprint ppd files.] 
http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.7-gplgs-8.62-gutenprint-5.1.98.2-os2-20080608.zip

There is also a much smaller download of just the files (7.5 MB) that have 
changed since the last release 
http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.7-os2-20080608.zip

REQUIREMENTS:
Ghostscript and Gutenprint require the LIBC 0.6.3 runtime dll from 
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip
CUPS is built using a custom libc064x.dll - a copy of which can be 
downloaded from http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip

CHANGES since the last release:
  1) Updated to CUPS 1.3.7
  2) Fixed a problem in pstops.exe that prevented the last page of OS/2 
generated postscript printing

There is a eCups mailing list at Netlabs which can be viewed via Gmane at 
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.ecups.devel

Please, please post feedback.  A list of printers that Gutenprint supports 
can be found at http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3

Further details on using CUPS on OS/2 or eComStation can be found at 
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups or in the readme.os2 file in the download package.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and 
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation 
either via Paypal using the  link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys 
Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/


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