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From: jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to get LARGE programs to Spectre?
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Date: 7 May 89 15:51:33 GMT
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>"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?)."

I'm running Spectre on a Mega 2 with no hard drive.  (Can't afford it yet)
All I do is Stuff the files on a Mac, transfer them over to my Atari, and
UnStuff them on the Spectre.  No Xverter.  I just use a telecomm program
under Spectre, and transfer the program directly to my HFS disk.  As there
are pd telecomm programs out (older versions of RedRyder?) you shouldn't
have any problem doing this.  My only problem is that Freehand II takes
up 98% or so of a HFS disk... I better get a HD really fast!
--
Jonathan   ...ucbvax!cory!jlemon   or   jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU