NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/hardware/14505

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From: [e-mail] (Rob Pfile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Sharing Laserwriter between Mac and Unix
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:05:53
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Some months agio, I posted much the same question: how does one share a LW
between unix machines (running transcript) and one macintosh.

At the time, everyone told me to put the mac on the local ethernet. That
was not and still is not feasible, due to the cost of an ethernet board
and a new tap in the office. I was directed to a program called "Janus"
which will fool a unix machine into thinking it's talking directly to a
Laserwriter, and still lets one print from mac applications. For one
reason or another, I never got this working.

Now with the advent of SLIP, I can get the mac on the net for only the
cost of MacSlip or Versaterm SLIP.

The question now is: what software do I need to either:

1) get the mac to send it's print jobs over the net to a sparc running
transcript, which is physically connected to the printer? (which would sort
of be a chooser version of the lpr software)

or

2) get something like transcript for the mac, run the equivalent of lpd on
the mac, and tell the rest of the unix world that the printer is on the
mac, which will have an IP address and a name, like any other machine.

In both cases I need to be able to print from unix or from the mac without
switching any cables or hardware.

How do people accomplish this these days?

thanks.

rob pfile
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