rudd@calvin.Stanford.EDU (Kevin W. Rudd) (10/29/90)
I have been having extreme difficulty running A/UX on my system. Well, that is not quite true, as A/UX runs fine as long as I don't try to use Mac applications which use the printer. I have an Imagewriter II hooked up and it prints beautifully with lpr et al. as long as I am running A/UX stuff. However, when I try to run Mac stuff and change the printer to the printer port without appletalk, I am prompted with dialogs to remove appletalk and ensure cables are disconnected. The selection then immediately returns to the modem port. Appletalk has been removed from the kernel per the manual instructions (assuming everything has been done correctly) but this has had no effect. As we have a need to run both A/UX and Mac stuff (mainly Word, Excel, and TeXtures) it would be really nice to not have to reconfigure as a Mac and run without A/UX. Any pointers would be appreciated... Thanks, -- Kevin (unrelated question: Is there a native TeX/LaTeX, Emacs, and C++ available for the Mac? Gnu/FreeSoft has the latter ones but I am not sure how much work would be required to port if this hasn't already been done. Thanks, -- K).
rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) (10/29/90)
rudd@calvin.Stanford.EDU (Kevin W. Rudd) writes: >try to use Mac applications which use the printer. I have an >Imagewriter II hooked up and it prints beautifully with lpr et al. >as long as I am running A/UX stuff. However, when I try to run Mac >stuff and change the printer to the printer port without appletalk, >I am prompted with dialogs to remove appletalk and ensure cables are >disconnected. The selection then immediately returns to the modem >port. There's a known bug (well, Apple oughta know about it, I've told them on this newsgroup often enough :-) in the handling of the "printer"/AppleTalk serial port. Simply move your printer to the "modem" port and your modem to the "printer" port and reconfig. the software appropriately, and select the "modem" port for your ImageWriter to print to. This will work ok for the most part. One caveat--if you're running under the MacOS environment and print something to the ImageWriter, startmac32 apparently locks that device somehow so that any attempt to access it from the Unix side (via lpr, etc.) fails until you logout of the MacOS environment. >(unrelated question: Is there a native TeX/LaTeX, Emacs, and C++ >available for the Mac? Gnu/FreeSoft has the latter ones but I >am not sure how much work would be required to port if this hasn't >already been done. Thanks, -- K). The TeX/web2c port from labrea.stanford.edu compiles and runs just fine under A/UX, at least under gcc (I haven't tried it under cc); the mods required to the config file were minimal. I can post my config file if you need it. As for Emacs, check out the A/UX port on afsg.apple.com done by Ron Flax. John Coolidge has done a G++ port to A/UX (avail. on wuarchive.wustl.edu), but it's still rather new and rather flakey.... -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp Motorola Skates On Intel's Head!