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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: FPack for Macintosh
Message-ID: <8569@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 13:38:57 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.8569
Posted: Wed Jan 22 13:38:57 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 09:49:44 EST
References: <8081@amdcad.UUCP> <1113@arthur.purdue.UUCP> <8388@amdcad.UUCP> <450@mordred.purdue.UUCP> <8568@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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Keywords: FPack Ascii file packager

In article <8568@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>In article <450@mordred.purdue.UUCP> sbm@purdue.UUCP (Steve Munson) writes:
>>In article <8388@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>...
>>Anything that gets in the way of this process, like packit or any
>>Macintosh file munger without a UNIX equivalent, is a hindrance.  Once a
>>large file gets to the Macintosh, it becomes much more difficult to
>>convert further.

P.S.  THERE is a Unix equivalent to fpack, it came first.  see mod.sources.
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