Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!rex!ukma!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: couple System 7.0 related questions Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 18:04:41 GMT References: <236@hermix.UUCP> Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu In article <236@hermix.UUCP> lance@hermix.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse) writes: > does anyone have or know of a version of macps that works with > the System 7.0 LaserWriter drivers? > > does anyone know of a way to make the System 7.0 LaserWriter drivers > print to the serial port instead of AppleTalk? > > I would like to have macps running on our unix machine and filter > things comming from the Mac... You should just need to update your set of prep-files, using the prepfix program that came with macps (and editting the macps control file to know about the additional prep file). I've done this on my NeXT machine, and I can display system7-generated postscript files on my display. Both my Mac and my NeXT send their printouts to a Sun machine for actual printing though, and that has not been updated to handle 7.0 outputs (not here at RPI, that is). I expect that requires some updates to the CAP software and maybe reinitializing the laserwriters that are hanging off the Sun print spoolers. Macps itself seems to work okay though. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA