🚀 go-pugleaf

We didn't really want to talk about this until we had it done but...

The person doing the work is Theresa Breckon, tab@lbl-rtsg.arpa.  She
has added a set of ATP client routines to the Unix ATP package
originally done by Bill Croft.  She then wrote a PAP client and was in
the process of debugging it.  But it won't do much good to send her
mail: she's off competing in the Olympic trials then the World games
and won't be back here until September.  As soon as the program is
going, we'll announce it on info-applebus and send a copy to Ralph for
the archives.  With luck, we'll have something running by the end of
September.

Theresa's last project was Unix/Mac programs to allow a dedicated Mac
to be used as Unix-Laserwriter bridge.  The Unix side is a filter for
4bsd lpr which takes a postscript file and ships it to the Mac using a
modified xmodem over a 9600 baud terminal line.  The Mac side uses the
standard Mac print driver calls to ship the incoming file off to an
appletalk laserwriter.  We've been using this for about 6 months and
are quite happy with it. (Bill Johnston of LBL has a bit about this
in his 1986 Summer USENIX paper).  Sometime in the next couple of weeks
I plan to collect the pieces of this package and make it available via
anonymous ftp.  If you have an unused Mac or Lisa, this might get you
through until the ethernet version is going.

 - Van Jacobson, LBL