🚀 go-pugleaf

MacOne wrote:
> 
> in article 38b27e4a$0$780@personalnews.de.uu.net, Tiny Human Ferret at
> klaatu@clark.net wrote on 18/02/2000 16:11:
> 
> > Rod Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> [Posted and mailed]
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Actually, I'm pretty sure it can't. It _can_ allow the Mac to use a printer
> > attached to a *nix box running NetaTalk.
> >
> >>
> >> 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
> 
> I'm doing this...Well the other way round...
> 
> I've a Linux Box running Redhat 6.0 with an Epson Styles Colour 600 printer
> on the parallel port and I can print to it from the Mac using Laser Writer 8
> in the chooser.
> 
> RedHat has drivers for loads and loads of printers.

Oh, NetaTalk definitely does that. 

However, in trying to get my mom's StyleWriter to print files from my Linux
box, there's just plain no way to get it to do it.

> 
> Hope with helps
> 
> --MacOne
> 

-- 
                    "We look through a glass but darkly:
                 What we see is more colored by our beliefs, 
               than what we believe is colored by what we see."
Whom thou'st vex'd waxeth wroth:   Meow.    http://www.clark.net/pub/klaatu/