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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Connecting Apple Lazer Writer to Unix 4.2
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 11:02:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 11:02:42 1987
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In <8277@brl-adm.ARPA> Bell@VALLECITO.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (Michael Bell) writes:
> Does anyone have any information on how to connect a apple lazer writer
> to unix running 4.2.

	We've been running Adobe's TranScript package for the past couple
of years; seems to work fine.  A few minor bugs but nothing major.
All-in-all, better then most commercial software.  We don't have any
official software support contract but the folks at Adobe have been pretty
good about giving us help on the rare occasions things don't work right.

	We've got 2 LW's and an LW+ serving a 4.3BSD VAX and a bunch of 3.0
and 3.2 (i.e. 4.2 based) Sun-3's on an Ethernet.  One of the LW's is
directly connected to the VAX, the others to Suns, but you can't tell which
is which because lpr hides all that.  The TranScript package includes the
low-level stuff (lpr filters) and the front-end stuff (troff, ditroff, and
plot to PS converters) along with the needed font description files, etc.
Installation is pretty easy if you know your way around lpr.

	Now that we're starting to get into Mac's, we've got a Kinetics
FastPath box on order (should be here any day) so the AppleTalk Macs and
the TCP/IP/Ethernet Unix machines can share the LW's.

	I understand that Pipeline Associates have a similar package called
devps.  From what I hear it has some advantages over TranScript (and it's
cheaper too, I think) but I don't have any hands-on experience.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016