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From: face@arizona.edu (Chris 'Face' Janton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: LanWorks <--> Printing tools 6.1
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.085109.559@arizona.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 15:51:08 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.172440.6499@tertius.in-berlin.de> 
hasselbrink@tertius.in-berlin.de writes:
> I recently upgraded on zone of Macs to the new Printing tools 6.1. The 
problem
> is our version of LanWorks does not have support for this Apple driver
> generation and therefore constantly reinitializes the printer. Ok?
> 
> My question now: Is there anybody who has got the appropriate 
MSAP$APPLEDICTxx
> files which go into the device control table? Should be ascii text 
files. Since
> system 7 is tested since a while they might also have been developed 
somewhere.

Use the time-tested "Command-K" to create a PostScript file that contains 
the newest LaserPrep while printing an "empty" file.  Remove the "empty 
file" from the tail of the PostScript file and you now have a text file 
that you ship to the VAX.

Add the text file to the device control library for the VAX side of the 
house.  Modify the VAX queue definition to use the "new" prep file.

I have done this to keep a LaserJet III happy with both Mac users and VAX 
users.

8)

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Chris 'Face' Janton
CCIT 
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721
Phone: +1 602 621-6848