Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SFAUSTIN.BITNET!Z4648252 From: Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: How to get LARGE programs to Spectre? Message-ID: <890507.00204324.076711@SFA.CP6> Date: 7 May 89 06:20:43 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 "My current means to get programs to Spectre is with the Xverter software, which only deals with c400K "Spectre/Mac" disks. Usually I stuff and/or binhex them. Now we have LARGE programs (Excel, Word 4.0) which, even stuffed, are too big for Xverter. I cannot afford a special disk partition formatted for xverter to write to. I thought of splitting the binhex files into pieces, but cannot find a Mac program to put them back together, since all the Mac programs seem to want to hold the file in memory and I only have a 1040. Maybe someone has an idea (a Unix cat?)." Hmmmmm, I use StuffIt 1.51 and process files via XVERTER all the time. One of the files was over 1.5 meg in length (Mac-a-Mug) and transferred over perfectly. I segmented the file via StuffIt on the real Mac and then joined the segments together via StuffIt on the Spectre 128 Ataritosh. I do have a one meg MFS partition on my hard drive, though. After transferring the segments from the ST side to the "Mac" side, it was all fairly straight forward. I had no problem at all. You've got to dedicate a partition for MFS if you want to do this sort of thing on a regular basis. Larry Rymal