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From: mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: lpr for Mac?
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:29:40 GMT
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In article <7121.2726232f@vax1.tcd.ie>, cnolan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
|> Can any one out there help me ...
|> 		.
|> 		.
|> What is available to do this in the MAC world?  We have no TCP product for
|> MACs (yet).  Tho the usual share/free products are available on campus.
|> Does NCSA Telnet have lpr as in the PC version?

I have been testing a product from Stanford University (SU-Mac/IP) that has an
lpr that runs as a desk accessory. It seems to work fine. I don't have
an address,
but on-line docs are supposedly available via anon. ftp from
jessica.stanford.edu.
You could check there for more info. MacTCP is the preferred tcp product
for Macs.
 
|> Also what ethernet boards are available for the MAC IIcx/fx?

There are a lot of boards available. We use Apple's for II series machines.

|> What ether-boxes are favoured for MAC Plus/SEs?

We use Novell/Kinetics EtherPort boards for SE's. The boards aren't bad, but it
takes forever and costs a bunch to have them repaired by Novell. We've
also tried
NuvoTech's SCSI adaptors for SE's that already have their slot used for a large
display. They seem to work ok, though obviously slower than an internal board.


Good luck.

Charlie McGuire				mcguire@math.uiowa.edu
Systems Programmer			mcguire@cs.uiowa.edu
Dept. of Computer Science		
The University of Iowa