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From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac to HP-UX(tm) transfer?
Message-ID: <13267@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 22 May 89 18:15:55 GMT
References: <420005@hpbbm.HP.COM>
Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <420005@hpbbm.HP.COM> bwolf@hpbbm.HP.COM (Bryan Wolf) writes:
>
>Hello, I have a question about Mac to UN*X (HP-UX, to be
>specific) file transfer.  I would like to prepare documents on
>the Mac ( in Word or whatever) and then get them into a
>9000 Series 300 somehow.  Thoughts that come to mind are that
>I could either:
>
>1)  hook the Mac up to the 9000 as a terminal and send over an
>ASCII file; or,

I do this over the phone with kermit (on both ends) presently.
Works fine.  Kermit is free.  It is not the fastest modem program,
but when it says it transfered, you can delete the source.

>2)  somehow write the file to disk and have the 9000 read it
>on its own 3 1/2" drive ( which can read DOS format diskettes).

A Mac IIcx (with the new drive) should be able to write DOS
disks.  Adding such a drive to an older Mac (like my Mac II)
can be done (i think the drives are fairly cheap...).

>I would appreciate any suggestions on how to best accomplish
>this feat.

If the UNIX machine has an ethernet already, and the Mac is
in the same building, and you are going to do lots of transfers,
then i'd go with a Kinetics box and (NCSA??) telnet.  Then you
can do ftp at something like 11K bytes/sec (rather than at a
max of about 2K/second 19K baud - typically more like 200 cps.)
Big win.

Of course, if you want to type it in in uSoft Word or something,
most of the formatting vanishes when you write the
ASCII-with-line-breaks file.

We have had some luck in getting postscript images (bitmaps or
other objects) to our 4.3 BSD UNIX.  I hear we've even thrown
these postscript images into troff documents...  I don't see why,
though, word processing is more powerful and easier to use on the
Mac, and it can talk to a laser printer too... unless you want a
clear text version of the documentation for online reference...

>Thanks very much,
>
>Bryan Wolf 	bwolf@hpbbm
>		ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hp-ses!hpbbn!hpbbm!bwolf

Stephen Uitti.