FLEMINGM@QUCDN.BITNET (R. Mark Fleming) (06/13/90)
If you compile & install CAPS, you have a AppleTalk Phase I gateway from Unix to LocalTalk and Back. One of the sample program that comes with CAPS (Columbia AppleTalk Protocol Stack) is "lw" a utility to spool a PostScript program to an AppleTalk LaserWriter. I have a postscript header file I pre-pend to Unix Listing file to print them on our LaserWriter from Sun Workstations (Unix). I will submit it to Info-Mac Archives later this week, [ ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu 36.44.0.6 ]. cheers, Mark <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<=========================================>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mark Fleming, Macintosh Support, Office Systems, Computing & Communicat. Services, Queen's University at Kingston, Phone: (613) 545-2039 Bitnet: FLEMINGM@QUCDN or Mark.Fleming@QueensU.CA AppleLink: CDA0448 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<=========================================>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald) (06/15/90)
In article <Added.oaRZrpm00Ui389z08i@andrew.cmu.edu>, FLEMINGM@QUCDN.BITNET (R. Mark Fleming) writes: > If you compile & install CAPS, you have a AppleTalk Phase I gateway from > Unix to LocalTalk and Back. One of the sample program that comes with > CAPS (Columbia AppleTalk Protocol Stack) is "lw" a utility to spool > a PostScript program to an AppleTalk LaserWriter. I have a postscript > header file I pre-pend to Unix Listing file to print them on our > LaserWriter from Sun Workstations (Unix). I will submit it to Info-Mac > Archives later this week, [ ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu 36.44.0.6 ]. There is a box you can buy from EuroComm (619-471-9362) called LaserAccess. It allows an Appletalk network and an RS232 line to share a LaserWriter on the network. The price is $695, and is cheaper then using a FastPath and CAPS if all you want is printing capability. We have an RS232 port on our SGI workstation connected to the box and use Transcript to drive the printer from the UNIX side. Our Mac network is also connected into the box so that both the Mac users and Unix users can use the LaserWriter. We are very happy with the way that it is working. If a UNIX job is printing, the Macs wait in the queue. With Transcript, it will try again if the printer is busy. Periodically, we do have glitches from the UNIX side (jobs do not print), but we are not sure what is the cause. Anyway, I would highly recommend this as a solution for UNIX/Mac printing, if all you want is print sharing. -- Louis McDonald Internet: louis@aerospace.aero.org The Aerospace Corporation 213-336-8914