farrell@EREBUS.STANFORD.EDU (Phil Farrell) (12/21/88)
Samuel Asher and Greg Minshall have posted several messages regarding the feasibility of Macintosh users at site A printing to a LaserWriter at site B via Kinetics box connections to the Internet. The discussion seemed to indicate that it probably would not work due to IP fragmentation and time-outs over the Internet. If you have 4.3BSD UNIX systems or derivatives at both sites, you could use them as intermediaries to get around these problems. Run lwsrv on the local UNIX machine to pretend to be the remote LaserWriter. The local UNIX machine could then spool the print file (also quicker for the Mac than waiting for slow Internet connections) and ship it to the remote UNIX machine using the standard Berkeley remote spooling software (extremely easy to set up). The remote UNIX machine would then print the file to the remote LaserWriter using papif (lwsrv and papif are part of CAP - I am still running CAP 4.0, their names may be different in CAP 5.0). Phil Farrell, Stanford Earth Sciences farrell@erebus.stanford.edu