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From: frye@cerl.uiuc.edu (G. David Frye)
Subject: Re: Macintosh -> UNIX printing?
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 18:15:32 GMT
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In article <4117@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu
(Brain in Neutral) writes:
>GatorPrint allows UNIX processes to spool files to LaserWriters on
>LocalTalk networks.  What would be involved in creating a fake
>spooler for Macintoshes that could appear in the Chooser and would
>take LaserWriter output and shove it through the GatorBox to a
>waiting UNIX host?  The UNIX host could then send the output back
>to the printer.

CAP (version 5.0, at least) contains a sample application called LWSRV.  It
is a UNIX process that looks to an Appletalk network like a laserwriter.  I
haven't used it myself, but it sounds like it might do what you want, in
particular if you have the LW connected to one of the UNIX system's serial
ports.

This all assumes the use of CAP, which implies KIP or local equivalent.

G. David Frye, University of Illinois
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