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- From: olle@astro.uu.se (Olof Morell)
- Subject: Re: .HQX was: <none>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.154943.9490@corax.udac.uu.se>
- Sender: olle@solaris.astro.uu.se (Olof Morell)
- Organization: Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:49:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.115002.9225@bsu-ucs.uucp> you write:
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- |> i've gotten as far as having an FTP site send me a few .HQX files...
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- |> my question now is, once i receive them, how do i get them over to my
- |> mac? i have stuffit and everything, i just need a few suggestions on how
- |> to port the actual data over in a way that the files won't get toasted...
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- .HQX is vanilla ascii, can be transferred by kermit, zterm, etc...
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- Or with a floppy from e.g. Sun to Mac if you have the appropriate
- means of writing PeeCee diskettes and a superdrive to read them.
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- Then you unbinhex 'em and unstuff/uncompact them as usual.
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- Good luck.
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