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From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Anyone have experience with SuperMac Appletalk card?
Summary: A/UX 1.1 can use it.
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Date: 27 Apr 89 19:05:55 GMT
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In article <1989Apr25.091954.5883@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> owenr@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Russell Owen) writes:
> I want to print to a laserwriter from a machine running AUX.
>AUX doesn't support appletalk printing. ...
>SuperMac apparently makes such a card but so far they
>haven't returned my phone calls. Is anyone using such a card?

A/UX 1.1 can print though the SuperMac card, to AppleTalk, from
within the toolbox. This means that you can run your HyperCard
1.2.2, MSWord 4.0 or whatever and print using the normal
"Print" option.  I have seen this working here in the UK,
though it was all Beta stuff at the time.

I don't know if you can print from ordinary A/UX spoolers, but the
AppleTalk support is fairly public (a directory full of socket1, socket2,
.. devices) and so hacking CAP should be easy enough.
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