A/UX 2.0 and Imagewriters non-features

[E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc]

In article <BARNETT.90Oct1174040 at grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett at crdgw1.ge.com writes:
>In article <1990Sep28.224909.7440 at servalan.uucp> rmtodd at servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes:
>
>
>Yup. You are right. I guess I am spoiled by the flexibility of
>PostScript printers. Unless I can convert a MacPaint document into
>some bitmap document that ditroff can pass thru to some sort of
>printer driver. 
>

Has anybody attempted a port of Ghostscript to AUX?  aux.writer2.0 available
for anon ftp on aux.support.apple.com provides a chooser device that looks
like a laserwriter but sends the postscript to a shell command.  Ghostscript
could processes the postscript and compute a bit map.  Then the only missing
piece would be a device driver to ship the bitmap to the printer.  I have
a borrowed ImageWriter II that has to be returned and am thinking of buying
an HP DeskWriter (If I can get it to work w/ AUX).

>It seems that Apple added MacOS Printer support. Something is now
>different. Else why would they REMOVE functionality? Also - A/UX 2
>does not support a non-appletalk ImageWriter LQ under the Unix print
>spooler. Another example of something different. I don't feel warm and
>fuzzy about this solution. 
>

Actually what Apple broke is the printer port.  Things are supposed to work
ok if you put your printer on the modem port and the modem on the printer port


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