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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
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Subject: Re: To and From a Mac
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.172126.11244@ericsson.se>
Date: 6 Feb 91 17:21:26 GMT
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In article <8807@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes:
>
> Consider using the program STUFFIT by ray lau
>(sic), it is the equivalent of zip/lzh/etc in the
>Mac world.  It'll compress the data & resource fork
>into 1 file.  You obviously need StuffIt on your
>AMAX mac disk, but that is fairly easily obtainable
>(just download it using ZTerm or somesuch).
> 
>I personally xfer over the serial cable whatever
>files i need.  At a baud rate of 115k it goes by
>quite fast!  :)  You can fool around with copying
>disks (couple ways to do this... stuffit, apple file
>exchange, writing a msdos disk) but I think the time
>saved will be, at most, 2-4 minutes per disk
>transferred.  
>

And a save of 20 km cable, since the Mac and the Amiga isn't exactly in
the same room...

Actually, it doesn't sound too bad: Stuffit-File Exchange on IIci-MSH on Amiga-
Amiga to AMAX-unstuff it.

>--
>Parik Rao, University of California Santa Barbara
>6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu