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From: celvin%ee.surrey.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Chris Elvin)
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Subject: apple laserwriters and UNIX
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Date: 3 Feb 89 16:25:23 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 138, message 9 of 10

In v7n119, Evan Bauman was having trouble hooking a laserwriter up to a
SUN.  At Surrey Univ. we don't (as yet) have transcript so our solution
was to make a new filter program to handle straight postscript files.
Since installing it on a 3/280S (Oct 88), we have had no trouble and the
printer is used fairly heavily.  Text files (listings) can be translated
into postscript before sending to the spooler but this could be included
into the filter program.  Anybody interested?

Christopher Elvin,
Computer Systems
   Support Officer,              Network Address : celvin@ee.surrey.ac.uk
Dept. of Electronic and          Telephone       : +44 483 571281  ext. 9104
   Electrical Engineering        Direct line     : +44 483 509104
University of Surrey,            Telex           : +44 859331
Guildford,                       Fax             : +44 483 300803
Surrey, GU2 5XH.