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- From: johnson@horta.rice.edu (Bruce Johnson)
- Subject: Need help setting up Apple LocalTalk printer on RS6000
- Message-ID: <BtAx8n.KzE@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:33:59 GMT
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- I have been trying to add an LocalTalk-based Silentwriter
- (postscript printer) to our RS6000 530 (AIX 3.2). The
- LocalTalk network is bridged to the ethernet by a Shiva
- FastPath, and I have installed the latest patch level of
- CAP 6.0 successfully on the IBM. But I am still doing
- something wrong and can't figure out what.
-
- Communications are definitely established. I can use
- CAP's tlw, for example, to send a showpage to the printer.
- However, I cannot figure out the correct AIX way to add
- the printer/device combination. So far I have the following
- in my /etc/qconfig file:
-
- silent:
- device = dsilent
- up = TRUE
- acctfile = /var/spool/lpd/silent
- dsilent:
- access = write
- file = FALSE
- backend = /u1/local/cap/silent
-
- where silent is soft-linked to papif in /u1/local/cap, and
- in /etc/cap.printers I have
-
- silent=Silentwriter:LaserWriter@*
-
- which is the correct LocalTalk name.
-
- I suspect I am not providing enough info (a la BSD printcap),
- but can't find enough info using either INFO or the CAP docs.
- Any help would be much appreciated.
-
- Bruce Johnson
- Dept of Chem
- Rice Univ
-