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Several people have posted recently about using UNIX systems to
print postscript created on a Macintosh.  I have a related
problem. 

In our lab we have a laserwriter II that is shared by a
Macintosh and a network of suns running UNIX.  Switching the
laserwriter between the two involves changing the setting of
two delicate dip switches on the laserwriter.  This is
difficult to do and I'm sure that the switches will break
soon. Also, Macintosh users often forget to return the
switches to the default (UNIX) setting.

To solve this problem, I would like to set up the Macintos
to automatically create postscript files when asked to print
and send the postscript created to a daemon on the suns that
will spool the result along with everyone else's jobs.  Is
there any way to do this with background printing and
multifinder?  It should be possible to tell the mac to
pretend that the communications line that connects to the
UNIX system is just a postscript printer, but I have not
figured out how to do this.  Has anyone else done this?

Thanks for any suggestions and help.

--Walter Carlip


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Walter C3arlip 					c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
(the "3" is silent)				c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet
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