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Re: Combining/Separating files.

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From: 6600pete
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 18:37
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From article <356@sierra.stanford.edu>, by bhansali@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Ameet S. Bhansali):
> I have a question for all of you.  I need to transfer around a dozen
> text files back and forth between a unix machine and a Mac.
> I have no problem transferring them individually, but this is not
> efficient.
> 
> Is there any way one can combine/separate a group of files at *both*
> ends, so that only one file need be transferred?

Any decent version of Kermit (the terminal program, not the protocol
will allow you to batch uploads. You put a batch of files in a folder
and then tell it to send everything in the folder.

This is probably a better idea than concatenating the files, because it
saves you from splitting them on the UNIX side of things.
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