CUPS and java

[Cynthia Croy]

  Hello everyone -

I have a couple questions about CUPS. I haven't gotten my printer to 
work with the software that came with YDL 2.2, although the network is 
unreachable error went away (thanks Larry!). Now I just get nothing, so 
I thought I would try CUPS. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten very far. I 
followed the HOWTO on the YDL web site, and I got to the point of 
extracting the spec file, and I get "tar: cups-1.1.15-1/cups.spec: Not 
found in archive." I'm wondering if the fact that the download quit with 
"download complete" when the status window said it was only 99% 
finished. Did it miss something? I tried the US mirror, the Finnish one, 
and the German one. The German one quit with 0 Mb in the file. The US 
and Finnish ones gave the 99% finished result. Is there another site I 
can download from or something else I can do to fix this?

Some more questions: Is there a specific driver for the Apple 
LaserWriter Select 310 that I can get for free? The commercial packages 
that the CUPS company has indicate a driver for this printer, but it 
looks like I'll have to spend $49 to get thousands of drivers when I 
might need two at the most. It also looks like this is only available 
for Intel Linux. Maybe I'm misunderstanding their web site. If there 
isn't a specific driver for free, is there a generic driver for 
postscript level 1?

I also tried installing the Java runtime environment from the Penguin 
PPC web site. The first time I tried to use it, I got the message that I 
needed the plugin. After I quit Mozilla and tried again, I got to the 
interface, but the text was displayed funny - half the word was visible, 
part of the phrase was missing etc. - and when I tried to submit 
information I typed, nothing happened. I think I followed all the 
instructions when I installed and everything seemed to work. The 
about:plugins listed several things that had java in the name. Any ideas 
about what's wrong?

Thanks,

Cindy