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Article #8408

Re: connect a PC to a appletalk network

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From: venu.p.gopal
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 00:56
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!In article <825@dukempd.phy.duke.edu> fang@dukempd.phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes:
!>
!>	I have some postscript files generated on PC all the time.
!>I transferred them with floppy disk to a Mac IIcx, then print them
!>out on a laserprinter with SendPS.  The laserprinter is on an apple
!>talk network.
!>	Is there anyway that I can do all this directly?  Since I do
!>not have a Mac with my experiment, I have to wait for someone's
!>mercy to let me use his Mac.
!>	Thanks in advance.

Why not connect a serial cable from the PC to the laserprinter, switch
the printer from Appletalk to the serial port and send the files that way ?

Venu P. Gopal
att!ihuxy!vgopal
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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: connect a PC to a appletalk network
Keywords: what should I do?
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Date: 28 Nov 89 00:56:12 GMT
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