Subject: Re: Printing
To: Jonathan Short <jonathan@leviathan.ele.uri.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/23/1996 09:37:35
> 
> Hi, I work at a UNIX lab at my university.  We have several prof's who 
> want to be able to print from their SPARCstations to a printer hooked up 
> to an Appletalk network.  We also have a Mac II lying around.  I was 
> wondering if MacBSD had a port of Netatalk, or if there were any other 
> options which I could look into.  Thanks,    

Are the printers on LocalTalk or on EtherTalk? AppleTalk is the network
protocol, and LocalTalk is the wiring scheme.

NetBSD supports EtherTalk via CAP, and there's talk of porting netatalk.
We have no support for LocalTalk yet. It's on the to-do lists, but
it's not at the top.

Take care,

Bill