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From: mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Laserwriter woes.
Message-ID: <3779@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 27 Aug 89 21:57:00 GMT
References: <63C18828161F8001AC@HMCVAX.BITNET>
Reply-To: mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Michael Steele)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <63C18828161F8001AC@HMCVAX.BITNET> SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.BITNET ("Scott, part time fuzzy") writes:
>  (A suggestion for the apple people: create a new printer driver called
>"postscript file."  When the user prints to it, it puts up a Standard File
>dialog to ask where to put the postscript file containing the output of the
>program.  Perhaps one might need the LaserWriter driver as well, but it should
>not be too diffucult to create if one knows how printer drivers work.  (I most
>definitely do not))

I have the SAME problem, except we have a Apple Laserwriter IInt connected
to our Vax.  I can run a wire to our printer and set it up for Appletalk,
but this is a pain, I would rather be able to do direct connect or upload
the file to the Vax.  Is there some sort of trick to do this like on the MAC
opt-4 I believe?  

Would it be possible to intercept the postscript file before it goes out on
Appletalk? (of course this would require on to trick the computer into
thinking that there was a Laserwriter connected via Appletalk).

Thanks in advance.				Michael Steele
						mikes@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
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