Re: mounting Macintosh volumes under Linux?

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From: Rod Smith
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:00

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In article <38AB517E.942DA3BD@clark.net>,
	Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> writes:
> 
> What I would really love to see would be something that would allow a
> Linux-ix86 system to use the printer attached to a Mac box. For instance, if
> I could send a print file (via Netatalk or something similar) to Mom's
> Stylewriter (System 7.5.1 on an LC-III believe it or not), that would be
> truly spiffy. 

This already works. The pap program, which is part of the Netatalk
package, can send a file from a Linux box to a Mac printer. The psf
program can be used as a filter in a normal Linux printer queue to send
a print job via pap.

I don't know how well these tools work with non-PostScript printers,
though. At the very least you'd need to have Ghostscript up and running to
convert the file to whatever format the printer accepts. I don't know
offhand if Ghostscript has appropriate drivers for an Apple StyleWriter.

-- 
Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux

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From: rodsmith@speaker.rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: mounting Macintosh volumes under Linux?
Date: 2000/02/17
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