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From: dorrestn@nvpna1.UUCP (Frans Dorrestein )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.sys.mac
Subject: How to connect MAC to Apollo Domain ring?
Message-ID: <265@nvpna1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 07:59:16 EST
Article-I.D.: nvpna1.265
Posted: Mon Oct 26 07:59:16 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 02:24:43 EST
Reply-To: dorrestn@nvpna1.UUCP (Frans Dorrestein +31-40-742987)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven
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We have a lot of Apollos and some postscript printers in a Domain ring.
We also have a few Macintosh Plus systems. We would like to connect the
Macintoshes to the Apollo ring in order to be able to use the printers in
the ring to print files from the Macs. We don't want to connect printers
directly to the Macs because they can't be shared that way.

We have had a look into MacApollo (V1.4) but that is not a solution to our 
problem because it only emulates yet another screen on the Apollo. 

Typical applications we have are: MacDraw, MacWrite and TeXtures. We want 
these to produce postscript output on the Mac and next we want these
postscript output files to be transferred transparently to the postscript 
printers in the Domain ring.

How do you get these applications to produce a postscript file?

How do you get the output automatically transferred to the Apollo printer?

Is there any public domain or commercial software to solve our problem?

Please reply to me and I'll summarize to the net.

Frans Dorrestein, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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