km@emory.CSNET.UUCP (06/28/86)
I understand that LBL is doing a print spooler that runs on
Unix and spools to a laserwriter sitting on Appletalk
(via the Kinetics box).
Can anyone give me an e-mail contact for this, or any similar
work?
Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322
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km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANEThurf@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Hurf Sheldon) (07/02/86)
Please post answers to this question as it is of interest to
a number of people.
Hurf Sheldon Arpa.css: Hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu
Lab of Plasma Studies
369 Upson Hall phone: 607 255 7267
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853van@LBL-CSAM.ARPA.UUCP (07/03/86)
We didn't really want to talk about this until we had it done but... The person doing the work is Theresa Breckon, tab@lbl-rtsg.arpa. She has added a set of ATP client routines to the Unix ATP package originally done by Bill Croft. She then wrote a PAP client and was in the process of debugging it. But it won't do much good to send her mail: she's off competing in the Olympic trials then the World games and won't be back here until September. As soon as the program is going, we'll announce it on info-applebus and send a copy to Ralph for the archives. With luck, we'll have something running by the end of September. Theresa's last project was Unix/Mac programs to allow a dedicated Mac to be used as Unix-Laserwriter bridge. The Unix side is a filter for 4bsd lpr which takes a postscript file and ships it to the Mac using a modified xmodem over a 9600 baud terminal line. The Mac side uses the standard Mac print driver calls to ship the incoming file off to an appletalk laserwriter. We've been using this for about 6 months and are quite happy with it. (Bill Johnston of LBL has a bit about this in his 1986 Summer USENIX paper). Sometime in the next couple of weeks I plan to collect the pieces of this package and make it available via anonymous ftp. If you have an unused Mac or Lisa, this might get you through until the ethernet version is going. - Van Jacobson, LBL