Very Computer

What's on my mind is: using ghostscript to talk directly
to the requesting Mac and feeding the bitmap to the printer.

Any idea?
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Dieter Stueken, Inst. f. Kernphysik, WWU-Muenster

: Would be nice, if my Linux machine would look to them like a
: LaserWriter directly at the net. I got the CAP package, but all I
: found was the opposite: printing on a real AppleLaserWriter by UNIX
: lpr.

CAP also provides Mac users with access to Unix printers and file
systems.  I've used CAP (on a Sun) to provide both printing and file
servicse with both Mac System 6 and System 7.  It does take a bit of
work to get it all installed and set up.

: Also I'm not sure if CAP+Linux can handle EtherTalk phase 2.

I don't remember either.

: What's on my mind is: using ghostscript to talk directly
: to the requesting Mac and feeding the bitmap to the printer.

If you can set up a print queue under Linux that can handle postscript
files (Ghostscript is one way to do that), then you can use CAP to
provide printing services to Mac users via ethernet -- the CAP lp
server appears as just another ethertalk printer to Mac users.

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It has been able to do so for several months now. I am currently using CAP
quite successfully on an all Phase 2 network. Just get the latest linux
patches at ftp://dedalus.eats.com/pub/cap-linux-patch.tar.gz and get a
source distribution of CAP from wherever, and I think that you will be
quite impressed. The speed of AUFS has really increased dramatically over
the past few months. Enjoy!

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Neil A. Rubin