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From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RS232 Laserwriter on Mac
Message-ID: <1989Jan25.130749.8459@isy.liu.se>
Date: 25 Jan 89 12:07:48 GMT
References: <3219@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: ingemar@isy.liu.se
Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
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In article <3219@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> keithl@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
>
>   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?

I use "Asynchronous LaserWriter Driver" from APDA. I connected the Mac
directly to the laser, while our Suns were connected to the other port.
With ALW, it works fine, at least from the Mac side.

The ALW can also be set up to do more complicated things, like calling
another machine over the phone or similar things, through a scripting
language. I can't say much about that, since I don't need it.

/Ingemar Ragnemalm
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