Re: appletalk printing w/ proterm 3.1

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: rb <rbooker@darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:

: > On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, David Empson wrote:
: > > I assume you are using CHOOSER.II or the appropriate IIgs control panel
: > > to select the printer in each case?
: > 
: > this is a tangential problem.  often i prefer to boot directly into p8 to
: > launch quickly 8 bit programs (including proterm).  Chooser II won't run
: > unless slot 7 is set to appletalk, but i have a rom 3 with a ramfast in
: > that slot (appletalk in slot 1).

: If Chooser.II requires slot 7 to be set to AppleTalk, then it is rather
: out of date.  I don't know if there is a version that is new enough to
: know about the ROM 3, so it is not likely that this can be solved
: easily.

Well, Chooser II works on my //e with a workstation card in slot 1. I would
expect it to work with any slot since is meant for use with the workstation
card and you can put it in any ol' slot.

: The main problem is that if you are booting from ProDOS-8, you almost
: certainly have no AppleTalk support available.  Under normal
: circumstances, you have to boot GS/OS (with AppleTalk support installed)
: to get access to any AppleTalk function (except booting over the network
: from an AppleShare 2.x or 3.x file server, which is built into the ROM).

That's what I thought, how can you do any networking without booting GS/OS
or from a server?
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Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@southwind.net                               and Apple aficionado