crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (07/26/90)
Printing from Macintosh systems to NeXT Printers via CAP with lwsrv works quite well, and yes, lwsrv captures "laserprep" (md dictionary) files as sent by Macintosh LaserWriter driver software. Those files need to be edited slightly to work with lwsrv (whether lwsrv is spooling to a LaserWriter connected by a serial line or a NeXT printer). In response to the request for examples, I put the file: -rw-rw-r-- 1 crum 84667 Jul 25 20:53 lwsrv_NeXT_examples.tar.Z containing: rwxr-xr-x 61/52 0 Jul 25 20:10 1990 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/ rw-r--r-- 61/52 244 Jul 25 19:37 1990 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/NeXTFonts rwxr-xr-x 61/52 0 Jul 25 18:27 1990 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/ rw-r--r-- 61/52 22561 Nov 29 23:33 1989 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.12.ps rw-r--r-- 61/52 26617 Nov 29 23:33 1989 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.40.ps rw-r--r-- 61/52 28883 Nov 29 23:33 1989 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.49.ps rw-r--r-- 61/52 28569 Nov 29 23:33 1989 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.65.ps rw-r--r-- 61/52 26690 Nov 29 23:33 1989 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.66.ps rw-r--r-- 61/52 21603 Nov 29 23:33 1989 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.68.ps rw-r--r-- 61/52 26116 Jul 25 18:26 1990 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/lwprep/md.70.ps rwxr-xr-x 61/52 822 Jul 25 19:25 1990 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/start-appletalk rw-r--r-- 61/52 1524 Jul 25 20:10 1990 lwsrv_NeXT_examples/README.lwprep in the anonymous FTP directory on host cs.utah.edu, for people that are interested in this. I have also been using the CAP papif and macdump applications to print from NeXTs to AppleTalk LaserWriters and to backup Macintosh volumes (respectively), so let me know if anybody needs help configuring those systems, e.g. a printcap entry and modified Transcript psif script for NeXTs. I don't know if those examples are included in the NeXT CAP distribution announced recently in comp.sys.next. What Stanford host is that on? Oh, but printing from Macintosh Applications running on top of A/UX 2.0 to lwsrv PAP servers failed when I tried it. Well, I guess the voice "Your printer is waiting for paper" notification of the NeXT printer system is worth that incompatibility. Just kidding. Gary
crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (07/27/90)
Please note that I have removed the actual md.*.ps files from the lwsrv_NeXT_examples.tar.Z file I put in cs.utah.edu:~ftp/pub, leaving the instructions by which they were derived from Mac-downloaded LaserPrep files. Thanks to Edward Moy (edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU) for pointing out that Apple's md copyright probably precludes making the md definitions available by anonymous FTP. Note that his macps/prepfix is a system for preparing LaserPrep files for download to printers, e.g. through lwsrv to a NeXT printer. It is available as info-mac/unix/macps-22.shar by anonymous FTP from sumex.stanford.edu Gary