From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:29:04 UTC, piesse  wrote:   
      
   > > I know absolutely nothing about PPD files, but any tool that crashes    
   > > like that when it gets such data is broken and should be fixed.   
   > > It is symptomatic of poor programming/validation of data.   
   > > Telling people to edit a file is not really the solution.   
   >    
   > the PPD importing program is from IBM and was apparently released in    
   > 2001. I don't know if the source is available, and I don't believe that    
   > anybody at IBM would be willing (or even allowed) to fix it.   
      
   The source is available as part of the DDK.  I'm not sure if I'm   
   personally up to fixing it, though.   
      
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