Re: Appletalk and GSOS 6.0.1

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <5c0ujm$j87@nonews.col.hp.com> strick@netwiz.cs.itc.hp.com (Jim
Strickland) writes:
}Posted this to comp.sys.apple2.comm too.
}I just upgraded my GS to GSOS 6.0.1 from the apple FTP site.  Now I find that
}I can't print to my appletalk printer.
} 
}I get an error message (don't have it in front of me) about unknown job/user.
}
}Oh, and under prodos 16 printing worked,albiet slowly, although I may not have
}gotten something set up correctly when I reconfigured everything.
} 
}the computer:  Apple2GS Rom1
}The OS:        GSOS 6.0.1 with the GUPP installed.
}The printer:   Declaser 1152 (which talks just nicely to my wife's Mac, which
}               is also on our appletalk net.)
}The net:       Appletalk held together with phonenet connectors.
}The Software   Writer's Choice Elite, 1987, Activision.
}Cards:         RamGS 4mb - latest rev. (two weeks old)
}               Ramfast SCSI slot 6 (deactivates 5.25 inch floppy.  *sigh*)
}Disks:         Quantumn Fireball 340mb scsi.  2 32 mb prodos partitions, 1 FST
}               with the balance of the disk's space.
}Ports:         Parallel  - appletalk
}               Serial -  null modem to my win95 box.

I don't know if this affects Laserwriter printing too, but my copy of
Writer's Choice Elite has problems with the System 6.0.1 Imagewriter
driver.  Everything prints, but if the document contains any graphics,
the colors come out all messed up.  I believe this is because the
Imagewriter driver's method of supporting non-default color tables changed
radically somewhere between ProDOS 16 and GS/OS 6.0.1.  Writer's Choice
Elite is probably depending on the old method.

So given that WCE is probably making obsolete assumptions about the
Imagewriter driver, it't not too much of a leap to conclude that it's also
making obsolete assumptions about the Laserwriter driver.  You might want
to copy your old Laserwriter driver (from the OS you were using before you
upgraded to 6.0.1) into the System:Drivers folder on your hard disk (with a
different name, of course, so it doesn't clobber the System 6.0.1 driver),
and try printing through the old driver instead of the 6.0.1 driver.

               - Neil Parker
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