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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: pbmplus on abcfd20 TOO LARGE!!!
Message-ID: <3907@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:50:25 GMT
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thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:


>	... So, in order to transfer the files
>	from work to home, I ftp them directly onto a Grid portable (Messy-DOS
>	laptop), the take the floppy home and transfer them to my Amy with
>	Cross-Dos.  ...

>Why not de-lharc them on the work system?  Do you REALLY have an MS-DOS system

I do basically the same thing to get files to my Amiga, Thad. 
The reason you don't un-archive them at work is that MSDOS 
(which is what you have to transfer them to your amiga with) 
doesn't support full amiga file names (Only 8 characters with
a 3 letter extention). 

If he had lharc on his unix machine he could possibly unlharc large files
on it then re-lharc them into smaller lharc files. IF his unix machine 
supports filenames long enough. My unix machine here chokes on file names
longer than 14 characters. So, I can't lhunarc them on my unix machine,
as it truncates names over 14 chars long. And a lot of Amiga file names seem
to be more than 14 chars. 

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