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From: eric@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Eric Fielding)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: xbin for MacBinary
Message-ID: <945@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 10:02:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 26 10:02:51 1986
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In article <243@unicus.UUCP> rae@unicus.UUCP (Clith de T'nir) writes:
>...
>one to translate binhex format files into MacBinary format files?  This would
>be a good thing, since MacBinary is independant of file transfer protocol
>and thus one could use a standard xmodem or kermit program that is already
>on the system, rather than having to keep macput around, which is highly
>Mac-specific.
>	Just asking...
>Clith de T'nir	{decvax,allegra,ihnp4,pyramid}!utzoo!utcs!yetti!unicus!rae

I don't know if this is peculiar to the UNIX system on this Gould, but I notice
that downloads with "macput" are much faster than downloads with "kermit". 
I don't know enough about the protocols to know why this might be so.  I
often use "macput -u" to download text files because it is faster.

				--Eric Fielding

 ARPA Internet: fielding@geology.tn.cornell.edu