Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcae!vice!keithl
From: keithl@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: RS232 Laserwriter on Mac
Message-ID: <3219@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 89 20:36:15 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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   I am another of the Mac->UNIX->Laserwriter crowd (Actually, s/Mac/Lisa/,
but in this case things work the same).  I have a dedicated RS232 line to
the Mac, and am presently going through all the hassle of
control-foo -> mac-terminal -> lpr .  Blah.  I can easily set up the unix
end to swallow data and throw it at the LW, but the Mac end is NOT user
friendly.  

   Has anyone written a driver that takes the place of the laserwriter
driver in the system folder and spews out in RS232 serial rather than
Appletalk?  I've heard rumors of some developer code.  

   I can print postscript to RS-232 directly from my PC-AT.  Are you Mac
programmers going to let a PC-AT get away with something a Mac can't do?

(The gauntlet thrown down, he leaves the room, fully expecting a response
to appear in comp.binaries.mac within hours).

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Keith Lofstrom   ...!tektronix!vice!keithl   keithl@vice.TEK.COM
MS 59-316, Tektronix, PO 500, Beaverton OR 97077  (503)-627-4052