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From: crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum)
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Subject: Re: Mac-II <-------> NeXT ----> NeXT Laser Printer
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Date: 13 May 91 21:04:10 GMT
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CAP with lwsrv allows Macintosh systems to print to NeXT Laser Printers
using the standard Macintosh LaserWriter driver and print dialog.
I set it up in a couple labs.  CAP is the Columbia AppleTalk Package
for UNIX, and it is freely available.  It requires something like
a Shiva FastPath-4 or Cayman Gatorbox to do AppleTalk-in-IP (KIP)
encapsulation/decapsulation, though, unless someone has taken advantage
of the new NeXT KernLoad system to cause CAP to use EtherTalk instead
of KIP.  When that is done (or when NeXT incorporates AppleTalk
support in system software, hopefully with all of EtherTalk Phase I,
EtherTalk Phase II and LocalTalk) the requirements for CAP tools to
work won't be as compicated and particular.

Gary