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From: mazer@bek-owl.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LaserWriterII & Serial Line
Keywords: PS RS-232 LaserWriterII
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Date: 15 Apr 89 06:54:32 GMT
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Sorry if this is an old topic, but..

Our lab has just bought a MacIIx/LaserWriterII combination; our
primary computer, however, is a Unix box. We'd like to hang
the LaserWriterII off the unix box, and set the mac up to
send output to unix.

I'm not a mac-hacker, so I'm hoping someone can give me an
easy solution.. It's no problem from the unix end, so the real
question is: Do drivers exist for the laserwriterII that will
run over a serial line instead of the appletalk port? In other
words, I'd like to be able to select a seral-LWII option on chooser
instead of atalk-LWII with no loss of features.

Please respond via mail; I'll summarize if there's enough
interest.

Thanks for any help,
/Jamie
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