🚀 go-pugleaf

"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?)."

    Hmmmmm, I use StuffIt 1.51 and process files via XVERTER all the
time.  One of the files was over 1.5 meg in length (Mac-a-Mug) and
transferred over perfectly.  I segmented the file via StuffIt on the
real Mac and then joined the segments together via StuffIt on the
Spectre 128 Ataritosh.
    I do have a one meg MFS partition on my hard drive, though.  After
transferring the segments from the ST side to the "Mac" side, it was
all fairly straight forward.  I had no problem at all.
    You've got to dedicate a partition for MFS if you want to do this
sort of thing on a regular basis.

Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>