PMP Mail Archive: RE: PMP> Clarification on HP's implementation of OCTET STRIN

RE: PMP> Clarification on HP's implementation of OCTET STRIN

Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:52:35 -0400

In Bob's description, the part about all names changing if any name incurs
a WRITE seems a bit odd, but the part about the agent leaving the strings
alone when a management app sets them seems appropriate to me.

>I was kind of surprised when I found how this object was behaving. It seems
that
>once a new value ("*anything*" as you said) is written to prtOutputName for any
>bin, then the names are no longer localized. In other words, if a management
>application is customizing the names, then the printer agent leaves them alone.
>I don't believe I would recommend this as the proper object behavior.

prtOutputName is not defined as a localized string, so I don't know what
type of behavior one would expect other than what HP has described, here.
Can someone describe the "preferred" behavior? How can the agent localize
anything other than the default values?

Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems