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From: s8825443@ipc02.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Fiona Elizabeth THORNE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Files from Sun to a Mac
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Date: 19 Jun 91 01:19:52 GMT
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In article <15040@ector.cs.purdue.edu> krk@jacobi.cs.purdue.edu (Kevin Kuehl) writes:
>I have ftp'ed some files from sumex-aim that I want to transfer to my
>Mac.  I have them on a SPARC IPC with a floppy and I would like to save
>them to a floppy that my Mac can read and write.
>
>What would be the best way to do this?  Don't say download them with a
>modem.  I have about 20 Meg and don't want to spend days downloading.
>

Get suntar (was posted in the binaries section on the net a few weeks ago).
Format a floppy on your Sun (I use fdformat command) then use tar to dump
the mac files onto the disc. Go to your Mac, run suntar and this will
extract the tar archive.

Happy tarring,
Fiona Thorne.