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- From: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch DG1AM)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Writing MAC-readable floppies from Sparcstation
- Message-ID: <mkl.714424722@dagobert>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:18:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> <1992Aug20.180605.23085@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca> <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug21.000655.2800@msc.cornell.edu>
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- maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
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- >But if you want to speak to a Mac, not a DOS box, there are substantial
- >advantages to Suntar. Among these are
- >1) automatic DeHQX
- >2) automatic DeMacBinary
- >3) much better interface than AFE
- >4) retain decent length, yupper and lower case file names
-
- don't forget the posibility to transfer files > 1440k. Those files
- are automaticly splited to fit on the floppies(of course only when
- using GNU tar).
-
- BTW I always DeHQX my files on the sun using mcvert. This saves a lot
- of space on my transport disks.
-
- Mario mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de
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