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- From: marshall@cs.iastate.edu (Bill Marshall)
- Subject: Re: GrayShare and the "old" StyleWriter
- Message-ID: <marshall.728276066@stimpy.cs.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:54:26 GMT
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- arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru) writes:
-
- >Can someone elaborate on how the GrayShare software and the StyleWriter II
- >will work in a network environment? I don't understand from the press
- >release how will the StyleWriter be connected to the Mac, i.e. as an
- >AppleTalk device or as a serial device.
-
- The printer connects via a serial port. If appletalk is running on
- your mac, you have the option of offering it to the network (even will
- password controlled access) Your machine then sends out the proper
- packets (on localtalk) to allow the printer to show up in the chooser.
-
- Bill
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- Bill Marshall
- Computer Science Department
- Iowa State University
- marshall@cs.iastate.edu
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