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From: wiseman@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need United/Binhex/Stuffit all-in-one program
Message-ID: <2150@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 18:24:42 GMT
References: <1990Feb21.153256.19177@phri.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <1990Feb21.153256.19177@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
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>	A big piece of software gets posted to comp.binaries.mac.  What do
>you have to do to use it?  First, save all the pieces.  Then copy them to

This is not exactly what youasked for but if you are collecting your multi
piece file from the net on a unix machine (eg. file.p1, file.p2, file.p3), what
you can do is get a copy of mcvert. Mcvert will take the pieces, combine them
and convert them into macbinary in one shot. (eg. mcvert file.p*). This not
only combines the pieces and strips out the news headers, etc. but also creates
the macbinary version which is much smaller than the binhex ones combined
resulting in a much faster download time.

When you download, most mac terminal type programs will let you download the
macbinary directly resulting immediatly in a file all set to use, unless of
course it's a stuffit file but then you just run stuffit on it.

Hope this helps!

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Jeff Wiseman:	....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM