hasselbrink@tertius.in-berlin.de (04/19/91)
We have currently DEC LanWorks 1.0. We use the printer service part to allow VMS users to print on LaserWriter attached to AppleTalk. Works indeeed! I recently upgraded on zone of Macs to the new Printing tools 6.1. The problem is our version of LanWorks does not have support for this Apple driver generation and therefore constantly reinitializes the printer. Ok? My question now: Is there anybody who has got the appropriate MSAP$APPLEDICTxx files which go into the device control table? Should be ascii text files. Since system 7 is tested since a while they might also have been developed somewhere. Eckart Hasselbrink Hasselbrin@fhi-berlin.mpg.de Faradayweg 4-6 Fritz-Haber-Institut 1000 Berlin 33 Germany
face@arizona.edu (Chris 'Face' Janton) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr18.172440.6499@tertius.in-berlin.de> hasselbrink@tertius.in-berlin.de writes: > I recently upgraded on zone of Macs to the new Printing tools 6.1. The problem > is our version of LanWorks does not have support for this Apple driver > generation and therefore constantly reinitializes the printer. Ok? > > My question now: Is there anybody who has got the appropriate MSAP$APPLEDICTxx > files which go into the device control table? Should be ascii text files. Since > system 7 is tested since a while they might also have been developed somewhere. Use the time-tested "Command-K" to create a PostScript file that contains the newest LaserPrep while printing an "empty" file. Remove the "empty file" from the tail of the PostScript file and you now have a text file that you ship to the VAX. Add the text file to the device control library for the VAX side of the house. Modify the VAX queue definition to use the "new" prep file. I have done this to keep a LaserJet III happy with both Mac users and VAX users. 8) ------------------------------- Chris 'Face' Janton CCIT University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: +1 602 621-6848