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From: sbm@purdue.UUCP (Steven B. Munson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: FPack for Macintosh
Message-ID: <1113@arthur.purdue.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 17:43:31 EST
Article-I.D.: arthur.1113
Posted: Thu Jan  9 17:43:31 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 02:25:21 EST
References: <8081@amdcad.UUCP>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Lines: 13
Keywords: FPack Ascii file packager
Summary: Please, no more packaging programs!

In article <8081@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
> Gary Perlman posted a program for Unix and MSDOS called fpack to
> mod.sources recently. This program packs text files for transmission to
> micros without the benefit of sh or unshar.

     I hope no one is planning to use this for posting to net.sources.mac.
We have packit already, and I prefer to do all the file munging and
unpacking on UNIX.  Once something gets downloaded to the Mac, those
teeny-tiny disks make it very time-consuming to do further conversions.

					Steve Munson
					sbm@Purdue.EDU
					sbm@Purdue.CSNET