schmidt@flash.bellcore.com (Robert O Schmidt) (12/13/90)
I have an explorer II whos postscript printer died. is there any way of making this machine print to a postscript printer connected to a unix machine (a sun for example)? i realize that text files can be coppied over the network and printed directly on the unix machine. i am however stumped on the subject of getting screen dumps (bitmaps). we have several postscript printers defined in the namespace for symbolics lispms. the printer definitions for these is however diferent. if i modify one of these (localy) to look like the postscrit printer directly connected to the ti, and try to print something, the result is a statement about not knowing how to spool to the unix machine. is there any way to make the explorer understand how to do this? if not, is there any way to convert the file (looks like some sort of a hex representation of the bitmap) left in the printer; directory to postscript (which can then be coppied and printed)? thanks much... Rob schmidt@flash.bellcore.com
jwz@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU (Jamie Zawinski) (12/14/90)
In article <SCHMIDT.90Dec13095106@breeze.flash.bellcore.com> schmidt@flash.bellcore.com (Robert O Schmidt) wrote: > > I have an explorer II whos postscript printer died. is there > any way of making this machine print to a postscript printer > connected to a unix machine (a sun for example)? The code in the directory /usr/jwz/public/rexec/ on the machine spice.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.254.139] will let you do this. Anonymous FTP. The directory /usr/jwz/public/ contains lots of explorer goodies, going sadly unused these days... See _readme.text. When FTPing to spice, cd to /usr/jwz/public/ in one step. CMU's security mechanisms will not let you connect to the directories /usr/ or /usr/jwz/. -- Jamie