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From: bbsuser@bdt.UUCP (HENRY KWAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to get LARGE programs to Spectre?
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Date: 9 May 89 09:01:56 GMT
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> 
> My current means to get programs to Spectre is with the Xverter
> software, which only deals with ~400K "Spectre/Mac" disks. Usually I
> stuff and/or binhex them.
> 

Transverter works also with 800K MFS disks.  If I remember right, the Magic
Sac software usually included a formatter which would format disks to 800K and
MFS.  I don't believe the Spectre software does, however.

> 
> 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?).
> 

Stuffit 1.51 allows for segmenting of files.  With it, you can split a large
file into bite-size chunks of whatever size you desire.

Henry Kwan -=- ...{claris|ucsfcca}!wet!logic

"Rats.  My underwear's all soaked.  Now it's  
  gonna itch and ride up my rear all afternoon."