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Windows drivers are sometimes delivered as compressed with a now fairly |
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ancient scheme. part of which is that the filename is truncated, and the |
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last letter of the extension replaced with a underscore. |
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(Like printer.ppd becomes printer.pp_) |
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In windows 2k one can run the expand utility like: |
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expand printer.pp_ printer.ppd |
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Is there a utility for *nix which will deal with these files? unzip, |
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gunzip, barf. Not sure where to go next. |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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