Subject: Re: Printing via appletalk-ethernet bridge?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@tmonline.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/30/1997 14:25:02
At 10:09 AM -0700 9/30/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to print to a printer that is connected to the ethernet that
>> my netbsd machine is on by way of an appletalk to ethernet bridge?
>
>You mean from LocalTalk to EtherTalk (it's AppleTalk on both sides of
>the conversion)?
>
>Yes.
>
>> The specific box is a Dayna EtherPrint plus, and the printer is an Apple
>> Select 360.
>
>Netatalk should support it, if it's a postscript printer.
>
>If it's an inkjet, I'm not sure. The question's what exactly gets sent
>to the priter. Ghostscript can generate output for a number of printers,
>but I'm not sure if other stuff gets thrown in in front. :-(
>
Good news. Is netatalk part of 1.2.1 or will I have to build it separately?
If the latter, are their binaries? the SE/30 is a mite slow doing compiles
with its studly 8MB of ram.
Brad
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