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From: mocko@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Gary S. Mocko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Patching together hqx files...
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Date: 3 May 90 20:05:47 GMT
References: <1990May1.223759.6773@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: mocko@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (Gary S. Mocko)
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In article <1990May1.223759.6773@ddsw1.MCS.COM> douglas@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Douglas Mason) writes:
>
>
>Being the ignorant person that I am, I am new to the world of using the
>.hqx files.  While I understand how it all works and how to convert the
>files, is there any simple way to string together files that are broken
>down into 5 or so segments?
>
>To get Solarian II was VERY messy.  To save your lunch I won't go into the
>details other than I used Word Perfect and a hell of a lot of cut and
>pasting...
>
>What is the sane solution to this?  Surely there must be a "better way".
>



...and yet another method...

since the sloooooowest part of my transfer is from mainframe to mac, i've
been using the mac version of the unix =compress= [=maccompress=].

after =cat=ing the .hqx parts together, i =compress= them, do a binary
transfer to the mac [compress saving about 10minutes/100K], using =word= on
the mac with Find... takes about a minute to cut out the text and then
=binhex= the whole wad.

...gary