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From: MARCELO@phoenix.princeton.edu (MARCELO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Macintosh-->ProDOS
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Date: 20 Feb 90 16:51:57 GMT
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In article <1011@spock.UUCP> mustang@spock.UUCP (Neil McNeight) writes:
> -Forget about any kind of direct link between //gs and VAX because...
>         (1) I have no communications program, and
>         (2) I'm NOT lugging my gs all the way to the computer center
>             unless I absolutely HAVE to.
>  
> -I've used Apple File Transfer 'till I'm blue in the face and still
> nothing. 

     .. You could probably keep on using AFE " 'till I'm blue in the face" 
and never get anywhere .. The file that resides on comp.binary.apple (or 
whatever) is a text file .. Regardless of where that file ends up it will 
always be text .. That means it's text on the Vax on a Sun on a Mac on an 
IBM on an Amiga and on an Apple ][ .. There is no need to use AFE .. In 
fact if you do use AFE it takes this data which is for an Apple ][ and 
treats it like it was a Mac file (trouble begins here) .. Now we take this 
file and convert it to Apple ][ format using AFE (why?? it was in A ][ 
form to begin with) .. You now have a file filled with garbage That is 
useless to any and all machines ..