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From: davee@esfenn.UUCP (Dave Edick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: can Desqview have a Novell window using qemm.sys on a 386?
Message-ID: <537@esfenn.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 00:07:10 GMT
References: <2472@compugen.UUCP> <530@esfenn.UUCP> <17127@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: davee@.UUCP (Dave Edick)
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In article <17127@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> regan@castor.cs.Buffalo.EDU.UUCP (Kenneth Regan) writes:
>Here's what I'd like to do under DV'386 (with QEMM): set up a process which
>will spool output from our Unix network (say a FrameMaker PostScript file from
>someone's Sun), feed it into Ultrascript on my '386 AT-bus machine (8Mb RAM),
>and print it on an HP LaserJet II connected via LPT1.  I'll be getting a
>vanilla Ethernet card and a TCP/IP package for the '386.
>
>Can this be done fairly painlessly, or should I seriously think about getting
>a hardware PostScript board for the LJII and hooking it directly to the
>network (with a PostScript Unix printcap)?
>

Well, for one thing, you'll probably have a difficult time getting the TCP/IP
software to run properly with Novell.  They'll both fight over the Ethernet
board unless you're using packet drivers for the TCP/IP software.  

Secondly, I don't know how well Ultrascript will work in processing network
print jobs.  I've never tried anything like this, but I'd suspect that it would
be pretty unreliable if it worked at all.  Painlessly?  Definitely not.
You'll undoubetedly have to put up a real fight to get all those packages to 
work together.  Sorry....

I'd recommend something like the Pacific Data Postscript cartridge.  That 
will make the LJII look like a real postscript printer to any machine.  Most of the postscript boards for the LJII plug into a PC slot and act as a parallel port to the PC.  Meaning you're stuck with hooking it up to the PC.  With the Pacific Data cartridge, you could plug the LJII straight into the Sun.