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- From: schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: SUMMARY: Transferring large files with floppies
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.113719.6676@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 11:37:19 GMT
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
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- Sun to Mac:
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- Write multi-floppy archives on the Sun with bar or GNU tar. These
- can be read on the Mac with suntar (the suntar documentation
- explains everything).
- bar is a Unix system program, GNU tar can be obtained free (GNU
- copyright) in source form from many Unix archives, suntar is free
- from Mac archives.
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- Mac to Mac:
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- StuffIt, Compact Pro and DiskDoubler can split large archives into
- segments.
- Compact Pro is shareware, StuffIt comes in shareware and
- commercial forms, DiskDoubler is commercial.
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-
- Thanks to all who responded,
-
- Oliver Schoett Inst. f. Informatik (H2), Technische Univ. M"unchen
- Postfach 20 24 20, 8000 M"unchen 2, Germany
- schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de phone +49 89 2105-2399 fax -8207
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