cohen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Alexander Cohen) (12/15/88)
We are putting together a network of around 100 macintoshes, which will be connected via PhoneNet and bridges and very possibly a few FastPaths of Gatorboxes. We need fast printing, but nothing fancy--just straight ASCII. Are there any Lineprinters out there we can use? Can we have the students send print jobs to a cue say on a SUN so that they can be printed out at high speed on a line printer? We rather not invest in Laserwriters when all the students need are printouts of their Modula-2 projects. Please e-mail me, I'll post a summary if I get an adequate response. Thanks. Alex Cohen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?" Elvis Costello ..!{ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!cohen internet: cohen@cs.buffalo.edu BITNET: cohen@sunybcs.BITNET GEnie: AJCOHEN >>>Alex Cohen<<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
inei@cs.glasgow.ac.UK (Nick Nei) (12/17/88)
I have the same idea, and the funds to pay someone for 2 months to come up with a filter to do this, but no available manpower. My idea is simple: Make lwsrv masquerade as a LaserWriter in the Chooser. When sucking up the PostScript from Modula-II or Turbo-Pascal or whatever, strip the PostScript and send it to the lineprinter. If you find a neat solution, please let me know. You will make 500 1st and 2nd year undergraduates very happy! ARPA: inei%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk USENET: inei@cs.glasgow.uucp Mail: Nick Nei, Computing Science Dept., Glasgow Univ., 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Tel: (041) 339 8855