On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:11:11AM -0800, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, KITAMURA Yasuichi wrote:
> 
> > I think there's one more solution. That is to connect with LW by serial line
> > and use papd.
> 
> Nope, that won't work. papd needs a working appletalk network connection.
> As we don't support LocalTalk at present, you can't get any Appletalk
> network connection from your Mac to the LW using a serial line.
> 

Along with the local-talk port the printer probably has a true RS-232 port
which you can use to transfer raw postscript to the printer. I have used a
laserwriter NTR with NetBSD that way. You have to make up special local talk
to RS-232 connector to get the handshaking to work correctly (which involves
lots of tedious experimentation). There's information in Apples tech info
library which can help you with this.

	david.

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David Johnston
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