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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Macintosh -> UNIX printing?
Message-ID: <4117@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 20:22:05 GMT
Organization: Cafe Limbo
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GatorPrint allows UNIX processes to spool files to LaserWriters on
LocalTalk networks.  What would be involved in creating a fake
spooler for Macintoshes that could appear in the Chooser and would
take LaserWriter output and shove it through the GatorBox to a
waiting UNIX host?  The UNIX host could then send the output back
to the printer.

This would involve double traffic through the GatorBox, but the
advantage is that you would not have to do any spooling on the
Macintosh:
	(i) no need to take up local disk storage for the spool files
	(ii) no delays in processing during printing, such as PrintMonitor
	produces

Or, you could attach the printer to the UNIX host, in effect producing
Macintosh -> UNIX printing, which can't (I think?) be done with GatorPrint.

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Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu