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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help: Overriding DIPS on LaserWriter IINTX
Summary: two at once
Message-ID: <1470@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 04:56:02 GMT
References: <1990Aug7.225900.22721@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin
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In article <1990Aug7.225900.22721@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, whiteaj@clutx.clarkson.edu (Andrew White) writes:
> I am using both a Mac and an IBM AT with my LaserWriter IINTX, and the
> can be set by "downloading a PostScript program".  I take that to mean
> that PostScript can set the switches.  The manual does not, however,

Don Lancaster published a note in a fairly recent computer shopper, to the
effect that if you hook a serial port up, and an apple talk port up (one
on the 25 pin channel), the laser would work on whichever became active.
That is, you could send a job over the serial, and if Apple talk was not
working at the time i.e. it was idle, the laser would latch onto the
serial port until that job was done.  This means that you have to do
absolutly nothing.  Don freely publishes his phone number in the
Computer Shopper (or has been, until Ziff Davis bought it, and started
messing around with him.8(::::   )  his number is
602-428-4073.  He can tell you how to do it.  He feilds 60-80 calls
a day, and is always helpful.  As far as changing it, there is
a command  sethardwareiomode. 2 is for appletalk, 0 is for 232,
2 sethardwareiomode.  This has to be changed via an exit from the
serverloop.

Cheers
Woody