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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Cap/Kip
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.182022.16485@visix.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 18:20:22 GMT
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anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

   I was told a while back that I should just use GatorPrint, which is
   easy to configure (like, built-in) for NeXTs.  Today I find out
   that GatorPrint is held in low enough esteem by our LAN folks that
   I should use cap/kip instead.

The easy way is to use GatorPrint.  Tastes great, less filling, especially
if you already have GatorBoxen on your net.  Getting CAP up on the NeXT
and talking to your GatorBoxen in KIP compatibility mode may be complex
(although I haven't tried bringing up 6.0 on our NeXTs yet).  Where CAP
becomes nice is that it lets you use your NeXT printers and optical disks
as print and file servers for the Macs...

   for I've grown weary of printing to a file and ftp-ing the file
   over to some DECstation that *does* use cap/kip.

Um... doesn't Ultrix support BSD-style remote printing?  Can't you just
point your NeXT at your DEC machine?  This would seem to me to be the
simplest approach.

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Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
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