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Does anyone out there know of any Unix-based printer sharing software that
allows me to print Mac files on my Sun LaserWriter ?  -- i.e. I want my Sun
LaserWriter remain attached to the back of my Sun-4 (running SunOS 4.0.1),
that is I still want my Sun to control all the spooling to the LaserWriter.

I've Transcript 2.1 running on my Sun and I would like this package to work
with rather than replacing Transcript (there're many others in the group who
depend heavily on Transcript for their day-to-day work so I can't lose
Transcript).

Obviously I need to get some sort of ethernet card (probably from
Kinetics ?) since I'm just talking about 1 Mac here (no point to spend all
that money to get an AppleTalk<->Ethernet gateway) but I don't want to spend
the money until I'm sure that the needed software exists at a reasonable
price.  I think that the file-transfer software should be pretty
straightforward and the price should be quite reasonable (if public domain
versions don't exist yet for the Mac ether card).  My worry is with printer
sharing software.  The only one that I heard of is K-Spool from Kinetics that
runs as a daemon on the Suns (with some kernel modifications I heard ?) but
the price is kind of ridiculous -- it is more expensive than the ether card
itself.  It cost something like $600~$700 when I can get an ethernet card for
the Mac-2 for under $500 !  The only public-domain software I heard of that
provides both Unix-based printer sharing and file-transfer is the KIP & CAP
packages from Stanford & Columbia respectively but my impression is that they
only work on the Kinetics FastPath and I don't think that my need is justified
to buy an expensive gateway box for just 1 Mac.

I'm interested if anyone knows of any alternative.

--

Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab.,		Princeton University
voice = 609-987-2819 (x2987)	email = eho@confidence.princeton.edu
					eho@bogey.princeton.edu
regards.

-eric-