Serial port bridge

[Quentin Mason]

Hi,

> > Is there any reason why the serial printer does not work in Linux -- it
> > does support quite a few...
> 
> My printer is supported in Linux (it's HP500compatible), but not in MOL,
> which is, as far as I have understood old message due to the fact, that
> there is no proper serial driver in MOL (or am I wrong?)

Ahh, but that is a different question.  MOL cannot talk directly to the 
printer, it is true [but think what would happen if MOL and linux tried to 
talk to the printer at the same time... that is why these drivers are 
hard] but you can still print in MOL to that printer.

If you run netatalk on the linux machine, then you can use PAP to export
that printer in linux to the MOL session through appletalk.  Or perhaps
simpler, run a printer daemon and do it over tcp/ip between the two.  The
easiest way is to setup a postscript printer in MOL and then copy the
postscript to linux [an appleshare partition?] and print from there.

Q.