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- From: AVERNON1@ua1vm.ua.edu (Andrew Vernon)
- Subject: Re: Query: Appletalk, mixing 6.0.5 and 7.x systems?
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- Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- References: <1992Nov15.195012.10222@netcom.com> <1992Nov15.231857.10966@mercury.unt.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:21:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.231857.10966@mercury.unt.edu>
- Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu> writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov15.195012.10222@netcom.com> Hank Roberts,
- >hank@netcom.com writes:
- >>I'm told that works fine sharing 6.0.7 and 7.x -- but wonder if anyone
- >>can advise me about trying System 7 printer drivers on a 6.0.5 System?
- >
- >It should work fine. There were no substantive changes to the print
- >architechture betweens versions 6.0.5 and 6.0.8 of the Mac OS, so all
- >should work together swimmingly. You may also want to make sure that you
- >have version 3.x of the Appleshare workstation software on each machine
- >so you can take advantage of its features as well.
-
- Actually, System 6.0.8 is simply 6.0.7 with the 7.X print drivers added.
- I would recommend using the enhanced driver even if you have a System 6-only
- network. The only situation where you wouldn't want to is if you had a lot
- of floppy-only Macs, since the 7.X driver is 230K.
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