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SHARING PRINTER WITH CLASSIC MAC OS FOR MAC
SHARING PRINTER WITH CLASSIC MAC OS SOFTWARE

This is not the real thing, of course The RaSCSI printer implementation is not Atari-specific. Instead, you can run your Atari emulator, print to a file from within the emulator, and then use your native OS to print this file. you do not necessarily need an original Atari machine in order to be able to print with a word processing application for the Atari.

Once more point I'd like to point out, Atari once againi: Besides excellent software emulators there are also some clones, i.e. I had to smile, because I never ever used TeX, but the TempusWord word processor for the Atari. I remember that somebody once told me that it was obvious that I had used TeX for it. I would definitely not be able to convert my thesis, for instance, which contains a lot of embedded graphics, footnotes, a table of contents and an index, everything automatically generated and/or maintained on the fly (WYSIWYG) by the word processor. There were popular word processing applications for the Atari, and usually you cannot just (without losing formatting etc.) convert files in their proprietary format to, let's say, OOXml, in order to print it from a current platform with an up to date word processing application.

There are references to drivers for Mac but I haven't been able to find them archived Regarding word processing you are absolutely right.

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I don't have first-hand experience with SCSI printers on Mac, but after some cursory research I ran into the MicroDry line of printers from ALPS, which has an interesting connectivity solution in that they use the parallel port on PCs, but has a SCSI dongle for hooking up to Macs. It's relatively straight-forward to set up network printing: For Macintosh it's slightly less valuable, since it comes with Apple's LaserWriter drivers which can be used over Ethernet with a modern CUPS printer server via, say, Netatalk's papd daemon. Default is This is a neat and potentially very useful idea, in particular for platforms that don't have a network printer spooler.

The timeout in seconds a reservation is valid without receiving new printer commands is configurable with the "timeout=numeric_value" property.

The print command to be used can be specified as parameter when attaching the SCLP device, e.g.

"lp -oraw" as default command ensures that the data are sent to the printer unchanged.

The maxium transfer size per PRINT command is limited to 4096 bytes, see Get rid of hard-coded/static transfer buffer size #669 for details.

Printing can be cancelled before SYNCHRONIZE buffer was sent with STOP PRINT.

SEND DIAGNOSTIC is mandatory for printer devices, but currently does not return any data.

This is also the reason why maybe only printing of files can be supported: A well-defined end of data marker is required. This is a conceptual difference to parallel port printers, which are character devices. Without an explicit trigger the printer device would not know when the data are complete.

The client triggers printing by sending SYNCHRONIZE BUFFER.

This is consistent with how WRITE for block devices works, where data for a sequence of blocks can be sent as a complete sequence, or be split into smaller WRITE requests. New data are just added to the temporary file. there can be several PRINT command before the data to be printed are complete. Clients may send these data in chunks, i.e. rascsi shall save these data to a temporary file, which will later be printed.

The client sends the data to be printed with the PRINT command.

Implementing RESERVE/RELEASE UNIT is mandatory for printer devices, rascsi shall remember this reservation based on the initiator ID of the client.

The client sends RESERVE UNIT in order to get exclusive access to the printer device.

See ) for information on the SCSI-2 printer device.

SHARING PRINTER WITH CLASSIC MAC OS SOFTWARE

SHARING PRINTER WITH CLASSIC MAC OS FOR MAC