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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: FPack for Macintosh
Message-ID: <8388@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 19:41:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 19:41:23 1986
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References: <8081@amdcad.UUCP> <1113@arthur.purdue.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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Keywords: FPack Ascii file packager

In article <1113@arthur.purdue.UUCP> sbm@purdue.UUCP (Steven B. Munson) writes:
>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.

Not to be to obvious about it, but the original posting did say *text* files.
Now for an example:  Hack for Unix came over the net a while back, in a group
of shar archives.  Now how do I transport those source to the Mac? I
unshar them, then I macput -u each one of them???? That's how I did it a year
ago.  

Now if you want to write a packit compatible Unix program which can unpack
and pack packit files on Unix, go ahead.  Or if you want to write a /bin/sh
compatible unpacker for the Mac, go ahead.  Meanwhile, the next time a shar
archive full of source code I want to port to my Mac comes along, I will
unshar it on my Unix system, fpack the files into a smaller number of
files, and macput -u those to the Mac where I can unfpack them and begin
porting.

( and yes, I know about macsend *; I prefer a this.)
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