Subject: Re: What is a "Printer description file"?
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/28/2001 15:52:49
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 10:53 AM -0700 10/25/01, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
> >
> >You need a PPD (Postscript Printer Description) file and you choose
> >that from a list on your client Mac in the Chooser under "Options".
>
> You also need the same PPD on the *BSD side in netatalk specified in
> the papd.conf file.

As I understand it, you need in in papd.conf so that netatalk can send it
to macs which request it. Netatalk does not inhernetly need it.

Take care,

Bill