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- From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
- Subject: Re: AUX and SLIP on Powerbooks
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- References: <kzin.720931500@cc.gatech.edu> <1df5bcINNpgb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:51:41 GMT
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- In article <1df5bcINNpgb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, woody@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill
- Woodcock) wrote:
- > disallowed ways, no problem. I run a variety of Mac apps on my A/UX
- > box, including some pretty obscure AppleTalk networking apps, and I
- > rarely have trouble.
-
- I have trouble with a few things. QuicKeys, for example. Some obscure
- "MacTCP" things don't work quite right.
-
- > > Will a Personal LaserWriter printer work with it?
- >
- > I assume you're asking about A/UX, rather than PowerBooks. But the
- > answer to either is yes.
-
- A/UX absolutely _loathes_ my Personal LaserWriter NTR. I don't know
- if it has to be that way, but it is. Prints fine from Mac apps, but lpr
- can't
- do it. I've done everything the manual said to do, and on a nice clean
- 3.0 install, and it doesn't work. Perhaps there's some trick I'm missing,
- but the documentation is wrong at the very minimum.
-