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Re: Need syntax of Appletalk names

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From: Nick Nei
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 02:25
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Jeff White writes:

> I've recently changed the type of some of our laser printers from
> LaserWriter to LaserSpooler, so that papif and lwsrv can see the printers,
> but a Mac cannot. [...]

We do the same here in Glasgow: in fact I incorporate non-printable
ASCII in the name.  I don't use atlooklws but use atlook.  I think
it will be easier to modify atlook, and ignore anything that does
start with "laser".

Nick Nei.
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