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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: macget & macput
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Date: 30 Jun 89 20:52:40 GMT
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In article <387@mountn.dec.com> newton@nodename.dec.com writes:
#>MacGet and MacPut are used to send files to/receive files from a larger system
#>using MacTerminal.  They use three binary files on the host for each Mac file,
#>and thus do not replace BinHex 4.0, which codes Mac files into ASCII format so
#>they can be stored/mailed on any system which supports ASCII text.

While the above is one use of macget and macput, they are more
generally useful. With the -u flag, they can transmit text files
between a Mac and a Unix machine. That's how I print my Email or
interesting usenet messages, for example. There are other flags,
too, but I find -u the most important.

Steve Goldfield