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Re: Files from Sun to a Mac

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From: David E. Schimmel
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 14:41
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In article <15040@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) writes:
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|> Mac.  I have them on a SPARC IPC with a floppy and I would like to save
|> them to a floppy that my Mac can read and write.
|> ...
-- 
The somewhat convoluted means that I discovered to do this is to:

1. Save the file on a DOS disk using the doswrite command.
2. Read in the DOS floppy to the mac using Apple File Exchange.

With a little care about end of line characters, this works quite well.  Good Luck.

Dave

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