Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!lll-crg!cralle
From: cralle@lll-crg.ARpA (Bob Cralle)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Query: Can the printer use the modem port by default?
Message-ID: <1310@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 19:39:15 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-crg.1310
Posted: Sun Mar  9 19:39:15 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 01:50:32 EST
References: <563@mmm.UUCP> <127@Shasta.ARPA>
Reply-To: cralle@lll-crg.UUCP (Bob cralle)
Distribution: net
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG Group
Lines: 53

In article <127@Shasta.ARPA> mrh@Shasta.ARPA (Marc Hannah) writes:
>> My brother has a 512K Mac with a MacBottom hard disk, which plugs into
>> the printer port on his Mac. This means that he plugs his printer into
>> the modem port, and he has to use a ChoosePrinter DA to switch the 
>> printer port.
>> 
>> 	Does anybody out there know of a way to make the modem port come
>> up as the printer connection by default upon booting? I told my brother
>> that I suspected that there was a small patch that could be made to the
>> printer driver that would do this, but I don't know what it is. Can
>> anybody help me?
>> 
>> 	Alternatively - can he hook the MacBottom to the modem port instead?
>> I forgot to ask him that question, but I'm assuming he would have a good
>> reason why that won't work.
>> 
>> 	Thanks in advance -
>> 
>> -- 
>> 					--MKR
>> 
>> There is none so blind as he who cannot see.
>
>I use a MacBottom at work and use the MacBottom on each port depending.
>Since it has a print spooling facility, I don't see why you would want
>to plug in the printer to the free port. Instead plug the printer into
>the printer port provided on the MacBottom. When you print anything
>it will be spooled to disk and then printed. While it is printing the
>Mac is free for useful work. See the MacBottom manual for details about
>the print spooling feature of the device.
>    As far as I know the choose printer desk accessory modifies parameter
>ram so that you can set the printer port and it is remembered from bootup
>to bootup. 
>   David Gelphman     ->   DAVEG@SLACVM.BITNET   (from ARPANET)
>                           ...lindy!dbg          ( from Usenet)

the trouble is u can't use AppleTalk (AT) with MacBottom's printer port &
therefore u can't print to the LaserWriter. Unless u run MacBottom on the
modem port (the LaserWriter (AT) won't work on the modem port!?).


-- 


Regards, &c., Bob		cralle@lll-crg

R. K. Cralle
LLNL        MS L-73
POX 808
Livermore, CA 94550

fone 415/422-4041
FTS  415/532-4041		<<< Facts are no match for belief >>>