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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.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 19:16:21 GMT
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In article <25779@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> jsin@island.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (John Sin) writes:
>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.

There is a set of programs I wrote, call macps and prepfix, that will solve
your problem.  Prepfix takes a Command-K PostScript file and munges it to
works with macps (and also lwsrv).  Macps takes a Command-F PostScript file
and prepends the appropriate modified LaserPrep file and sends the result
to the standard output (much like what lwsrv does), which would typically
be a pipe to an lpr command.  Macps are for those who have Macs not connected
directly to a network (like mine at home) and who would like to print to a
PostScript printer that is available from a Unix machine.

Anyways, enough commercial.  Prepfix can be used to generate the appropriate
LaserPrep files for use with lwsrv.  It (along with macps) is available via
anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/unix directory.
It was also posted to comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.mac recently.

Edward Moy				Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services		Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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