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Re: Appletalk printer code

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From: Nigel Cliffe
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1989 07:26
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In article <2827@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, rcb@cccvs1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland) writes:
> Does anyone know of any code that would allow an ethernet connected host
> to talk to an appletalk connected laserwriter in the same fashion as
> a Mac on ethernet can do. This assumes either a kinetics or gatorbox
> connecting ethernet to appletalk. VMS or unix, free or $$$, anything will
> do.

According to our documentation TOPS supports this feature ,but we can't
get it to work when our appletalk cable is in a different zone to our
ethernet :-(.
Anyone know what we're doing wrong? (UK Tops distributor hasn't helped us much).

Nigel Cliffe.
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Message-ID: <489@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!axion!hfserver!nigel
References: <2827@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!axion!hfserver!nigel
From: nigel@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk (Nigel Cliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Appletalk printer code
Summary: Tops?
Message-ID: <489@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk>
Date: 14 Apr 89 07:26:19 GMT
References: <2827@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk UK
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