Connecting to a LaserWriter IIntx

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From: Frank Ferrie
Date: Wed, 18 May 1988 21:06

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Dear World,

  Our site recently got a shiny new LaserWriter IIntx :-), but unfortunately
the only access to it from my MAC+ is via a serial line to the UNIX host
it's connected to :-(.  I first tried to save the PostScript output to disk
(clover F), upload the file to the host and then dump it to the LaserWriter.
But it quickly became apparent that the LaserPrep stuff has to be sent to the
beastie first.

That's the problem.  I tried prefixing the laserprep stuff I found at
sumex-aim, but without any luck (does the change in processors have
anything to do with this?).  Now I've got this nice LaserWriter II
Installation Disk that has the latest version of LaserPrep on it sitting
in front of me.  Does anyone know how I can turn it into a PostScript-readable
form for tranmission over the RS-232 link?  Any help would be really
appreciated.

Frank Ferrie

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From: ferrie@mcgill-vision.UUCP (Frank Ferrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Connecting to a LaserWriter IIntx
Keywords: LaserWriter, LaserPrep, RS-232
Message-ID: <1118@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 21:06:19 GMT
Reply-To: ferrie@Moe.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Frank Ferrie)
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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Posted: Wed May 18 17:06:19 1988