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From: jsin@island.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Sharing an Apple Printer
Keywords: postscript printer for sun via a vax
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Date: 16 Jul 89 15:28:26 GMT
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In article <26361@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>
>You can also get the Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP), version 5.0, FREE,
>from anonumous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (in the info-mac/unix)
>directory or from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu.  Here at UC Berkeley, we have
>quite a few sites, that use CAP, bith for print spooling and file
>serving.  It is even a support service that we in the Computer Center
>provide for Unix machines that have nearby AppleTalk networks.
>

I have a related question that someone can answer.  I'm not at least 
bit familiar with postscript language, so I'm stumped...  If this is not 
the proper group to post this, I apologize.

We have a Mac II connected via FastPath box (III, I think it is) and the
KIP software to our Unix hosts.  I would like to be able to print from
this macintosh to the LaserWriters hooked on to the network as if the 
printer is connected to the Mac itself, from within an application.

To this end, I obtained the CAP package and compiled it on one of our
4.3 BSD Vax.  Only program so far that I'm interested in is "lwsrv",
which spools files from the Mac to the LW.

I have been successful in getting the files to spool correctly to the
printer.  I can see the file sitting in the queue, and the yellow light on
the printer blinks as if it would print.  However, after a while, the blinking
stops and nothing comes out of the printer.

I suspect the problem is in getting the correct Dictionary file which lwsrv 
prepends to the file.  There is a README file for lwsrv which says that it 
will capture the AppleDict the first time, and that I have to modify it to
eliminate codes for "stretch" and "smooth".  I did all that and still nothing.

The Mac runs MacOS 6.0.3 (or whatever the latest is - I forget) and the 
captured Dictionry file has the header "AppleDict 68" (Does this mean it's
LaserPrep version 5.2?)  The LW is a plain LW+, not the new breed of LW II's".
(Would it make a difference?  I could get LW II NTX, but I can't see why
that would make any difference)

I'd appreciate any help at this point.  Perhaps someone can send me
their version of the Dictionary file on Unix?   Moving the LW to mac
and make it the server for Unix hosts is not an option at this time,
for various reasons.
John (Jonghoon) Sin       (Above opinions are my own and etc, etc, etc...)
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