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From: sulkanen@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov (Martin Sulkanen - NRC/ES65)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Files from Sun to a Mac
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Date: 20 Jun 91 20:51:51 GMT
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s8825443@ipc02.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Fiona Elizabeth THORNE) writes:

>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.

i'm very interested in getting this too...but i don't see it under 
comp.binaries.mac - where has it gone, or if its no longer here,
where can i get it?

thanks in advance,
martin sulkanen
.