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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: PostScript, LaserWriter, Unix Connectivity
Keywords: laserwriter, postscript, unix, help!
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Date: 23 Oct 88 04:09:23 GMT
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In article <@psych.stanford.edu> zimm%portia@forsythe.stanford.edu writes:
>I'm trying to do something which, in theory, should be relatively easy,
>but which in practice seems quite difficult: create PostScript files
>on my Macintosh (from Macintosh applications, such as Word), upload them
>to a Unix system, and finally dump those files to the LaserWriter +'s and
>NT's connected to the mainframe.
>
> . . .
>
>Your best bet is to respond at 
>
>zimm%portia@forsythe.stanford.edu
>
>I don't get on the net much, so I probably won't see any messages posted
>here.
>
>Thanks for any help you might offer--Dylan Yolles

(I'm posting this to the net and mailing Dylan a copy since the answer is of
general interest.)

The inexpensive way to do this is to get a copy of my macps program that I
rosted to comp.sources.mac sometime ago (though I haven't seen it yet).  I
do know it is available by anonymous ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu (10.0.0.56 or
36.45.0.87) in the <info-mac> directory.  Following is the introductory
message from my posting:

[Macps is a Unix program that takes a PostScript file created on a Macintosh
[by typing Command-F to the LaserWriter dialog box and includes an appropriately
[modified LaserPrep file so that the result can be sent to a PostScript printer
[from Unix.  Unlike most of the other versions of this program, this one
[includes a second program, prepfix, that converts LaserPrep files to a form
[compatible with Unix (and can even be electronically mailed).

The other way to do this is more expensive in that it requires an AppleTalk
to Ethernet gateway (like a Kinetic's FastPath or a GatorBox).  Then you
can run either the Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP) on the Unix side
(available by anonymous ftp from cunixc.columbia.edu 128.59.40.130 or
sumex-aim) and the KIP code in the FastPath (available from sumex-aim again),
or you can spend more money and buy TOPS.  (By the way, besides printer
access, these systems provide file serving as well, with CAP using
AppleShare, which is now include in system 6.0.2, or by using TOPS
file serving.)

Edward Moy				Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services		Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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