Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!time From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Laserwriters and A/UX Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 89 16:38:41 GMT References: <366@wizard.UUCP> Sender: time@oxtrap.uucp (Tim Endres) Reply-To: time@oxtrap.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: Oxtrap - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 25 In-reply-to: john@wizard.UUCP's message of 2 Aug 89 21:28:58 GMT In article <366@wizard.UUCP> john@wizard.UUCP (John Danner) writes: I'm sure this has been asked too many times, but what are the steps in getting a Laserwriter to print from a Mac running A/UX 1.1? Well, many people will tell you about buying AppleTalk boards and such, but there is a simple and cheap solution as well. I use a program called "MacPS" that comes from the net (I forget the author's name this second). What MacPS does, is read your LaserPrep and fix it to work with lp. Then, when you print from your Mac application, you use the "Cmd-F" key combination to get a PostScriptN file. This is then fed into MacPS and redirected to lp, and MAGIC!, the file is printed. Since this uses the serial port, no expensive boards are required. What I have done is set up a daemon that sits and looks for these PostScriptN files, then prints them using MacPS automatically. So to me it just looks like print spooling. Of course, I have to deal with the obscenity of timing that "Cmd-F" thing! I wish Apple would provide a page setup option to do this with a radio control. It is no longer some "Secret-Programming-Police" feature that needs hiding from the user. Alternatively, if you wish to do normal printing, using Mac Print Manager stuff and the Chooser, you need to purchase a special AppleTalk baord. This is the only support for AppleTalk under A/UX.