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- From: rte@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.t.edwards)
- Subject: Do you know how to have both a network and a local printer?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:50:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.175009.16208@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Followup-To: poster
- Keywords: Ethernet Localtalk Serial port
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- Situation: we have several new Quadras networked together and to the
- outside world over Ethernet and TCP/IP. Some of us would also like
- to have local printers, as well as the printer on the Ethernet network.
- At present the only way we know to do this is to disconnect from the net via the
- chooser, remove Ethernet connection physically, connect the local
- printer physically, and choose it via the chooser. The rain dance
- must be reversed to go back to the normal state of affairs. The only
- good way that we know of to avoid this rain dance is to buy an expensive
- bridge between ethernet and local talk. Is there a simple, cheap
- way to be connected to both the TCP/IP network and the local printer
- and direct output to one or the other?
-
- With a PC, of course, this is trivial. Why isn't it on the MAC?
- (latter question is for Apple)
-