WIMS> RE: CIM> mofpretty testing of ugly stuff: A+

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2007 - 15:17:20 EST

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    Hi Rick,
     
    GREAT news that the tool does so much of the work for us!
     
    Notes with attachments usually die at the PWG reflector,
    so I'm replying to the WIMS list.
     
    For exchange of files by FTP (the right approach), we should put
    well-named files (w/ trailing 8-digit dates in the base name of their
    ZIP files) in _short_ named directory paths.
     
    Email readers like Outlook frequently break long URLs. Command
    line FTP tools make long URLs painful. And uppercase should NOT
    be used in PWG FTP site directory paths.
     
    So, I've just created the two directories:
     
    HYPERLINK
    "ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofinput"ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/
    cim/mofinput
    HYPERLINK
    "ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/mofoutput"ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims
    /cim/mofoutput
     
    Please use simple filenames like 'rick-20070119.zip', since
    the directory is self-identifying. Please ZIP everything you
    post, so we don't post the individual MOF files when there
    will soon be so many under CIM_Printer (device).
     
    OK, everyone?
     
    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Chair - FSG Open Printing Steering Committee
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau@Dell.com]
    Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:15 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Cc: wims@pwg.org
    Subject: CIM> mofpretty testing of ugly stuff: A+

    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.

    I hope this saves you some work programming.

    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

      MofBeautySalon
      MofBeautySalon/UglyIn
      MofBeautySalon/PrettyOut

    rick

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    <<messy1_prettified.mof>> <<messy1_prettified.html>> <<messy1.mof>> 

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