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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Asynchronous Serial LaserWriter Driver?
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Date: 9 Jul 90 21:17:30 GMT
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I posted the following query to comp.sys.mac.misc. Someone
suggested I repost to these groups, too. Please send any
response to steve.berkeley.edu since I don't read these
groups.

Statement of the Problem:  An outside contractor is setting
up a serial network in our dean's office. The network connects
Macs and PCs and allows them to share hard lines to the dean's
office VAX and an Apple LaserWriter. The network needs to be
serial for reasons I won't go into. So, we need to send
LaserWriter output through the serial port.

Unfortunately, the standard LaserWriter driver has no output
options and directs output through the AppleTalk connection,
which is the printer port. So we are looking for nonstandard,
customized LaserWriter drivers which permit redirecting output
to the Macintosh serial port. We are hoping that we are not the
first to tackle such a problem.

We would appreciate any information which would point us to
such a driver. Again, please send it to
steve@violet.berkeley.edu.

Thanks,

Steve Goldfield
College of Engineering
University of California at Berkeley