LaserWriter IINT Summary

From: Micky Liu (micky@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 11 1991 - 15:36:34 CST


First for the acknowledgements... Thank you all very much!

holle@asc.slb.com (Kathy Holle)
nicky@davinci.concordia.ca (Nicky Ayoub)
loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson)
chris@boxhill.com (Chris Maio)
bernards@ecn.nl (Marcel Bernards)
slt%ilog@uunet.uu.net (Stephane Tsacas)
steve@eastend.jpr.com (Steve Roth)
curry@bdrc.bd.com (Joan Curry)
icarus@end.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)

The following is a summary of the responses that I received in reply to my
query for assistance in connecting an Apple LaserWriter IINT to my Sun 3/140:

Most people suggested that I get TranScript or the newer NewsPrint software
from Sun and some sent printcaps for Transcript, but I am not including those
in the summary since they are mostly useless without the filters...

One kind soul (Joan Curry) offered to send me her very own hacked up filter,
but I think I may go with the TranScript stuff...

This printcap is from Steve Roth, real vanilla -- no filters...

#
# /etc/printcap printer control file for Local HP Laserjet (all models)
#
# Uncomment/comment lines as appropriate.
#
# # LOCAL LJIII SERIAL PRINTER...
#
lp|LJIII Serial Printer:\
         :lp=/dev/ttyb:\
         :br#19200:pw#80:\
         :sh:ms=-parity,ixon:\
         :sd=/usr2/spool/lpd:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
         :of=/usr/lib/hplaserjet:
#
# Local Serial Postscript printer...
#
lw|ps|postscript|PostScript:\
        :lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/usr/spool/lw:\
        :lf=/dev/console:\
        :br#19200:rw:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sh:sb:

There was another suggestion to use something called LWkit and here is blurb
and the printcap...

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        Hi,

        I am using a LaserWriter on a Sparc station in conjunction
        with a package called the LwKit produced at UBC. I picked
        it up (through ftp) at math.ufl.edu (128.227.128.12). I like
        it. It comes with a PS filter for text, and also will do some
        printer accounting as well as quota management. Have a look
        at it. I think it will also have a printcap entry for you.

        Here are some printcaps I got from Mark Plumbley
        <mdp@engineering.cambridge.ac.uk> for the lwkit.
        Hope that it helps.

#
# Apple LaserWriter II NT in the ECR lab machine room.
# 38400 baud, hardware handshaking.
#
# We use the lwp communication package from the LWkit, so we have :rw: set
# and termios modes as follows (from tpm's alw(1) settings):
#
# :ms= -icrnl,ixoff, (brkint,istrip,ixon from default)
# -opost, (no output postprocessing)
# -parenb,cs8,crtscts (cread from default)
# -isig,-echo: (icanon from default)
#
# The `crtscts' flag (i.e. hardware handshaking) cannot be set from the
# 4BSD compatibility mode, so that's why I'm using the :ms=...: field
# rather than the wider-used :fs#...: etc flags.
#
# mdp CUED 17 May 90
#
lw2|Apple LaserWriter II NT:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lw2d:lf=/var/adm/lpd-errs:\
        :lp=/dev/lwriter:br#38400:\
        :rw:ms=-icrnl,ixoff,-opost,-parenb,cs8,crtscts,-isig,-echo:\
        :sc:sh:\
        :if=/usr/local/lib/lwif:\
        :df=/usr/local/lib/lwdf:\
        :af=/var/adm/lpd/lw2-acct:
#
#
# Apple LaserWriter in the ECR lab.
# 9600 baud, XON/XOFF handshaking.
#
# We use the lwp communication package from the LWkit, so we have :rw: set
# and termios modes as follows (from tpm's alw(1) settings):
#
# :ms= -icrnl,ixoff, (brkint,istrip,ixon from default)
# -opost, (no output postprocessing)
# -parenb,cs8, (cread from default)
# -isig,-echo: (icanon from default)
#
# The `crtscts' flag (i.e. hardware handshaking) cannot be set from the
# 4BSD compatibility mode, so that's why I'm using the :ms=...: field
# rather than the wider-used :fs#...: etc flags. Actually I don't need it
# here: its for compatibility with lw2.
#
# mdp CUED 17 May 90
#
lw|Apple LaserWriter (old):\
        :sd=/var/spool/lwd:lf=/var/adm/lpd-errs:\
        :lp=/dev/lwriter:br#9600:\
        :rw:ms=-icrnl,ixoff,-opost,-parenb,cs8,-isig,-echo:\
        :sc:sh:\
        :if=/usr/local/lib/lwif:\
        :df=/usr/local/lib/lwdf:\
        :af=/var/adm/lpd/lw-acct:
#

        Good luck,

Nicky

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Nicky Ayoub nicky@davinci.concordia.ca
Dept. of E.E Concordia University
Montreal QC. H3G 1M8 (514) 848-3107

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Try this. Works with Frame Maker on Sun and my PC software over PC-NFS...

Steve Roth (steve@eastend.jpr.com)

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