Re: Printer drivers for Apple IIC's

[jcd@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au (Jeff Dyason)]

In article <1993Apr14.054315.17773@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dratzlaf@nyx.cs.du.edu (Norby) writes:
> In article <Apr.13.19.20.15.1993.28921@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu> scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:
> 
> [...]
>>There is a program called A2PS that turns text into PostScript, so you
>>could get output to a LaserWriter or clone.  But I'm not sure how you
>>could get an AppleTalk connection to the IIc.
> 
> Could you provide more info on A2PS?  I'd never heard of it before.  It is
> free, share, or commercial?
> 
	A2PS is a program which takes as input an ascii text file and puts a 
postscript wrapper around it, so that it can be printed on a Postscript printer.
It also allows for some fancy printing options, like printing two pages side
by side on one physical page. I ported version 3 of A2PS to run under the
ORCA shell about 1 1/2 years ago and I think it should also run under GNO
although I haven't tested it. I tried porting the latest vesion of A2PS 
(version 4) a couple of weeks ago but I was having trouble with ORCA/C 1.3,
so I was waiting for the new version of ORCA/C to arrive, which by the sound
of it may not be for awhile.
	Once you have your postscript file you then have to download it to a
printer, I take my files into work and send them to a postscript printer
usually hooked up to a mac. Someone around csa2 wrote a short program to
download a postscript file to a laserwriter over an Appletalk connection, I
think it was about 6 months ago.
	The acutal code for A2PS is available from a few FTP sites and you
should be able to find it using ARCHIE. If I get it to successfully compile
then I will post it to the binaries newsgroup and upload it by ftp to cco
at caltech.

Bye for now.	Jeff
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