Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!unmvax!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!einhorn From: einhorn@triton.unm.edu (E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 and Imagewriters non-features Message-ID: <1990Oct3.022757.28724@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 3 Oct 90 02:27:57 GMT References: <1990Sep28.224909.7440@servalan.uucp> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM Lines: 31 In article barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: >In article <1990Sep28.224909.7440@servalan.uucp> rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes: > > >Yup. You are right. I guess I am spoiled by the flexibility of >PostScript printers. Unless I can convert a MacPaint document into >some bitmap document that ditroff can pass thru to some sort of >printer driver. > Has anybody attempted a port of Ghostscript to AUX? aux.writer2.0 available for anon ftp on aux.support.apple.com provides a chooser device that looks like a laserwriter but sends the postscript to a shell command. Ghostscript could processes the postscript and compute a bit map. Then the only missing piece would be a device driver to ship the bitmap to the printer. I have a borrowed ImageWriter II that has to be returned and am thinking of buying an HP DeskWriter (If I can get it to work w/ AUX). >It seems that Apple added MacOS Printer support. Something is now >different. Else why would they REMOVE functionality? Also - A/UX 2 >does not support a non-appletalk ImageWriter LQ under the Unix print >spooler. Another example of something different. I don't feel warm and >fuzzy about this solution. > Actually what Apple broke is the printer port. Things are supposed to work ok if you put your printer on the modem port and the modem on the printer port -- einhorn@triton.unm.edu