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From: crgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Hooking up a printer to Apollo
Summary: Hooking a printer to Apollo
Message-ID: <190@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 13:44:55 GMT
References: <2487@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <2487@cup.portal.com>, Jinfu_Jinfu_Chen@cup.portal.com writes:
> 
> I wonder if an Eqson compatible with serial port can be connected
> to an Apollo's RS232 port. It would be nice to have a fast line
> printer just for printing text without going to the Imagen or
> Versatec. Has anyone done this yet? Any comments from Apollo?

I have hooked up an old DEC Letterwriter 100 to the DN330 in my office. I use
the DOMAIN/IX BSD4.2 lpr facility to print to it so I don't have to fool with
the device characteristics of the print server. Also, if you're using BSD4.2
TCP/IP, you can have BSD4.2 print jobs routed to a printer on a foreign host 
running TCP/IP and a Berkely-derived line printer daemon. For instance, the
Letterwriter is available only from my DN330 by using lpr -Pletter, however the
default printer is a DEC Decwriter IV connected to a Sun 3/260 that our Apollo
ring is attached through Ethernet, and this is available from all nodes in
our Apollo ring (running BSD4.2 TCP/IP). Look into the printcap file in your
DOMAIN/IX Berkley manuals.

Rob Gabbard                                   UUNET: uunet!sdrc!crgabb
Structural Dynamics Research Corporation

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