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In article <880@hao.UCAR.EDU> bill@hao.UCAR.EDU (Bill Roberts) writes:
>
>  I was wondering if anyone knows how to transfer a file from a Mac to a 
>Postscript printer tied into an Ethernet.  I've got macget and macput (I don't
>recall which one does the uploading).  I can upload a Mac file to UNIX and find
>it broken down into three components: .rsrc, .info, .data.
>  It seems like it ought to be possible to recombine the forks and build a
>Mac file in the UNIX environment and send that Mac file to a Postscript Laser
>printer.
>  Has anyone done anything like this?  Thanks for any input on this issue.
>
>--Bill

If you're going to print out a file from the Mac, I assume that it is a
text file and not a binary file (text file could be a PostScript program).
In this case, you should use the -u option with macget (on UNIX, macget
"gets" a file from the Mac, macput "puts" a file on to the Mac).  This 
option specifies UNIX mode, which uploads a text file converting carriage
returns into UNIX newline characters and giving the uploaded file a
suffix of .text (you get just this one file).

Procedure:
	On UNIX, enter the command    macget -u

	On Mac, send file xxxx using MacTerminal protocol

	The file is uploaded to UNIX and is given the name xxxx.text

More thoughts --
	If you want to print a Mac document, you should first create a
PostScript file on the Mac before uploading.  (Hold down Command-F or
Command-K while selecting OK from Print Dialog Box -- Command_k gives you the
Laser Prep header in addition the stuff for your document).  Make sure
that your PostScript printer can handle a Mac PostScript program.  The
DataProducts Laser Printer that we have here has a PostScript Driver but
can't handle Mac Stuff (seems that the Mac uses some special features
relating to fonts that this printer doesn't support).

Hope this helps.

					-- Greg