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id m0uBuok-0007s4a; Tue, 23 Apr 96 21:00 MDT Sender: owner-executor Received: by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uBukA-0007sBC; Tue, 23 Apr 96 20:55 MDT Received: from raven.ots.utexas.edu (osiris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by raven.ots.utexas.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00753; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:55:17 -0500 Message-id: <199604240255.VAA00753@raven.ots.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Serial Ports. Cc: schepers@dcs1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers), executor@ardi.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:58:44 PDT." To: tclai@ucla.edu (TC Lai) From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:55:17 -0500 Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "TC" == TC Lai <tclai@ucla.edu> writes: TC> If you're using an older printer, you'll still have a serial TC> connector (for connecting to PC's). I don't know what kind of TC> kludge you'll have to hack together to use it though. Probably TC> the same thing you'd do with an old LaserJet I imagine. No kludge if you're running linux. It can publish it's (serial) printers on the appletalk network (using netatalk), and you can even print postscript to a non-postscript printer if you use a filter that runs the file through ghostscript before sending it to the printer... Since it this offloads all the processing to the daemon on the linux box, a Mac printing this way will be also be unloaded sooner. -- Rob