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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>CIM> mofpretty testing of ugly stuff: A+</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1578" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Hi Rick,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>GREAT news that the tool does so much of the work for us!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Notes with attachments usually die at the PWG reflector,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>so I'm r</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>eplying to the WIMS list.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>For exchange of files by FTP (the right approach), we should put</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>well-named files (w/ trailing 8-digit dates in the base name of their</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>ZIP files) in _short_ named directory paths.  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Email readers like </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Outlook frequently break long URLs.  Command </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>line FTP tools </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>make long URLs painful.  And uppercase should NOT </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>be used </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>in PWG FTP site directory paths.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>So, I've just created the two directories:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4><A href="ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofinput">ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofinput</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4><A href="ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofoutput">ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofoutput</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>Please use simple filenames like 'rick-20070119.zip', since</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>the directory is self-identifying.  Please ZIP everything you</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>post, so we don't post the individual MOF files when there</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>will soon be so many under CIM_Printer (device).</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>OK, everyone?</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>Cheers,</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=403540220-19012007>- Ira</SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></DIV> <P><FONT size=2>Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)<BR>Chair - FSG Open Printing Steering Committee<BR>Blue Roof Music / High North Inc<BR>PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839<BR>phone: +1-906-494-2434<BR>email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com</FONT> </P> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Richard_Landau@Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau@Dell.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 19, 2007 2:15 PM<BR><B>To:</B> McDonald, Ira<BR><B>Cc:</B> wims@pwg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> CIM> mofpretty testing of ugly stuff: A+<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think you'll be delighted with the results.  Long, ugly description lines?  No problem.  Attributes out of order?  No problem.  Well, except for the ones it doesn't know about that are brand new.  </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope this saves you some work programming.  </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you can't run mofpretty out there, I'll do it here.  Let's make a temp directory on the ftp site to exchange files instead of emailing them all the time.  Something like</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>  MofBeautySalon</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>  MofBeautySalon/UglyIn</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>  MofBeautySalon/PrettyOut</FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>rick</FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>----------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard_Landau(at)dell(dot)com, Stds & System Mgt Arch, CTO Office</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>+1-512-728-9023, One Dell Way, RR5-3, MS RR5-09, Round Rock, TX 78682</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><<messy1_prettified.mof>> </FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><<messy1_prettified.html>> </FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><<messy1.mof>> </FONT></P></BODY></HTML> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>--<BR> No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR> Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR> Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.1/640 - 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