jjs@mickey.PRC.Unisys.COM (James Solderitsch) (11/24/88)
I am in the peculiar position of having an Apple laserwriter available,
but only one that is connected to a group of Symbolics machines where
the laserwriter serves as the only printing device for this group.
The main computing environment here is BSD Unix Vaxes and Sun workstations
but none of these machines are connected in any direct way to
the Symbolics network. I can ftp and telnet locally to at least
make a connection to a Symbolics host, but so far I have been unable
to successfully print any postscript files produced on my Mac, and saved
with either the Clover-F or Clover-K options.
A co-worker manually spooled some test files that I produced to
a Symbolics, but I get Postscript errors out of the laserwriter instead
of output. I used the latest Laserwriter drivers out of System Software
Update 6.0 when I made the postscript files.
Obviously I need the right kind of header file to prepend to my files
to allow the foreign laserwriter to execute Mac-ish postscript.
Will the Unix-specific utilities mentioned on the net be of use to me?
Where can I ftp the latest and greatest versions of these magic files
that allow Mac-produced postscript to be successfully translated to
beautiful hardcopy?
I'd love to here from anyone who actually must go through a Symbolics
machine to generate output that originated on a Mac, but I'll gladly
accept any advice I can get.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Jim Solderitsch
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