SUMMARY: NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?

From: Charley Paffenbarger (cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 22 1998 - 13:33:55 CDT


On Monday, Sept 21 I wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:20:30 -0700
> From: Charley Paffenbarger <cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu>
> To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
> Subject: NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?
> Cc: cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu
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> Status: RO
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> Has anyone developed a workaround to enable SPARCprinter support
> under Solaris 2.6? I've got 4 of these printers and I'd like to
> bring the supoorting hosts up to 2.6 from 2.5.1 (the last OS Rev.
> to officially support NeWSprint Rev 2.5B, the lpvi SBus interface
> and my SPARCprinters).
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
> Charley Paff
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> Charley Paffenbarger Seismological Laboratory and
> Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
> Email: cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley
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Of the several responses which indicated that Ghostscript will support
the SPARCprinter, the one that pointed me to Jens Claussen's step-by-step instructions
came from Francisco Gaztelua (see attachment below).

Thanks, muchas gracias and merci beaucoup to all for your help including:

        Francisco Javier Gaztelua Odriozola
        Brooke King
        Bill Hathaway
        David Summers
        Stefan Jon Silverman
        Benjamin Cline
        Roger Fujii

And, good luck to those of you who face the same challenge as I:

        Patrick L. Nolan
        David S. Foster
        Barbara A Basberg
 

Ciao, bella sun-managers!
-- Charley Paff

> From lgzgaodf@lgax02.lg.ehu.es Tue Sep 22 01:25:59 1998
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> From: "Francisco Javier Gaztelua Odriozola" <lgzgaodf@lgax02.lg.ehu.es>
> To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
> cc: cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:20:17 +0200
> Subject: Re: NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?
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> Hello,
> this problem has been addressed before in the comp.unix.solaris newsgroup.
> NeWSprint software doesn't work with Solaris 2.6 and it is not supported.
> There are (at least) two solutions to this problem. First, a commercial
> solution: Vividata Postshop. You can reach them at
> http://www.vividata.com
> There is also a public domain solution: the well known GhostScript
> software. This postscript viewer can print on a variety of output devices,
> including the SPARCprinter. This solution has been implemented
> successfully in our site and in others. Jens Claussen has published a
> complete information guide on the topic. Reach it at
> http://www.db.fmi.uni-passau.de/~claussen/Unix/SPARCprinter.html
>
> Regards,
> Francisco Gaztelua
> University of the Basque Country
>
>
>



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