r.aminzade@lynx.northeastern.EDU (06/24/88)
We are currently using a new Laserwriter NTX with both some
Macintoshes (via Appletalk) and some PCs (via the serial port).
It took some doing (with breakout boxes, and dealing with things
I don't really understand like XON/XOFF vs. DSR/DTR) to get
the thing working with the PCs, but what I REALLY want to do
is get it working with our 3B2/400 (running System V Unix V3.0)
The main problems seem to be:
a) pinouts: The 8-pin 3B2 to the 25-pin RS232C. Does anybody have
a diagram of how this should work?
b) Handshaking and Other Communications: I think I know the proper
stty commands to put into the printer driver (I'm
just using a stripped down dumb printer driver, since
postscript is just ASCII, right?), but the SYSV manual
says nothing about handshaking protocols. Anyone out
there know?
Initially, I just want to be able to use lp to send some postscript
files to the Laserwriter, but in time I'd like to kludge up a driver
that will make the Apple LW the default printer.
If there is ANYBODY out there who has done this successfully, I would
appreciate some information. Send responses to
r.aminzade@lynx.northeastern.edu (CSNet and NSFNet)
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-Russell Aminzade