aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) (07/16/90)
I requested information on how to easily print from ethernet-attached Macs to a laser printer attached to a unix system. I was hoping that someone had written an interface to the network printer port in the manner of interfaces to ftp, nntp, pop, smtp, telnet, and so on. Well, no one confessed to that, but I got a number of responses noting the CAP and UAB packages. Some of the responses were already posted, here's the responses I got via e-mail: From: John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu> If your mac is connected to the Unix system via ethernet or localtalk/ethernet, you can use CAP's lwsrv to automatically spool to a UNIX printer. From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) I have one that sends to MDQS that could possibly be hacked up. It is in assembly, wastes a LOT of effort trying to implement a modeless SFGetFile dialog, and was my first attempt at a real Mac app. It uses MacTCP. From: Michael Crawford <escher@apple.com> Check out Ushare, from I know not where (look in a buyer's guide), and K-spool and K-share, I think from Mt Xinu in Berkeley. From: Russell Mosemann <mosemann@hoss.unl.edu> CAP and its associated support programs allow printing from a Mac to a BSD machine. You may also need UAB, depending on your setup. -- a.e.mossberg / aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu / aem@umiami.BITNET / Pahayokee Bioregion Love is a cursed nuisance when coupled with lust also. - James Joyce