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Date:      Tue, 28 May 1996 07:10:57 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Jeroen Schellart <v932492@si.hhs.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Appletalk
Message-ID:  <v03006f03add09cbfeeb1@[206.104.23.142]>
In-Reply-To: <31AAA2DF.69F3@si.hhs.nl>

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At 1:53 AM -0500 5/28/96, Jeroen Schellart wrote:
>Does FreeBSD have support for the Appletalkt protocol.
>I recently got an old MAC-laser. The serial port only support a transfer
>rate of 9600 Bps. A little bit slow for a big postscript file. The
>apple-talk is a bit faster. So I would like to know if there is a way to
>use this port?

I think your solution will be to increase the serial port speed on the
LaserWriter from 9600 to some other value. Am quite sure it can be done (at
least 56k) but don't know how. I'd net surf looking for "Don Lancaster" as
he has written much over the years on hacking LaserWriters and Postscript.

--
David Kelly N4HHE,   n4hhe@amsat.org,    dkelly@hiwaay.net
=============================================================
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
                - Thomas Edison





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