From: "madodel" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:37:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Project Question
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Hi, Jordan...
> 
> On 02/23/10 12:55 pm, J R FOX thus wrote :
>> --- On Tue, 2/23/10, OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List 
>> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Copy the Win32 driver & inf to the newly created genmac\driver
>>> \WRAPPER_168C_001C directory. Copy the nif you edited into the nif 
>>> directory (and your \IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\MACS directory, if you like).
>>>     
>>
>> For some reason, I was thinking that there was some _other_ project 
>> going on whose objective was to be able to use Win NIC drivers in eCS, 
>> just as the goal of eCups is to do this for Win printer drivers.  But, 
>> is that what GenMac actually is ?
>>
>>   
> Indeed, currently, GenMAC is the *only* project for this, although it is 
> *not* open source. There is quite a bit of discussion going on 
> concerning a successor project, as the GenMAC author has stated that he 
> has effectively discontinued development.
> 
> Also, don't confuse eCUPS with the Win32PRN project. The later was 
> supposed to be a wrapper for Windows printer drivers to install under 
> OS/2. eCUPS is a port of CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) and does not 
> rely on Windows drivers at all. Instead, CUPS relies on Postscript Page 
> Definition (ppd) files, and is the standard method for printing to 
> UNIX/Linux printers.

And CUPS has the benefit of being owned and updated by Apple for use on Mac 
OS X so it will continue to be updated. :-)

Mark