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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: how 2 send mac binarys via unix?
Keywords: unix mac xfer
Message-ID: <1514@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 30 Aug 89 11:44:29 GMT
References: <1586@hjuxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1586@hjuxa.UUCP> pzl@hjuxa.UUCP (Twisted Systems Inc.) writes:
>What is the best way for someone send mac binarys 
>to me via unix mail or uucp?

>1- pkarc the file on the pc
>2- upload the file via kermit to unix
>3- uuencode the file on unix
>4- compress the file
>5- uuto the file to the other guy

Uh... doesn't uuto uuencode the file? Why then uuencode previous to the
compression ? Compress does a very handy work on binary files, so the
uuencode would not be necessary. I think it increases redundancy used
this way.

Anyway, the standard, used-by all method is packing your files in an
Archive using StuffIt 1.5.1 (for instance - this is the DeFacto standard)
and then, using the same program or BinHex 4.0 (I know there's a 5.0, but
everybody uses 4.0 or 4.0-compatibel StuffIt) to encode the archive in
ASCII read-onlys. Upload to the UNIX machine, mail (in cut-off pieces, that
are smaller than 100k each) and the receiver should have no problem
trimming the headers off, paste together the pieces (either on the Mac or
in emacs on the UNIX machine), deBinHex it and unStuffIt it. Complete
with icons and all.

Happy Hacking !

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