Re: Request for Help in Transferring Binary files from Mac to VAX

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From: Michael Peirce
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 18:12

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In article <63072@aerospace.AERO.ORG> louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald) writes:
>
>I also believe there is something called macget and macput that should
>work on the binary format directly. But I do not know enough about that.
>

There is also a program called XMAC written in Vax Pascal (by a friend of
mine, Kris Kreutzman, now with Apple).  It's very reliable and was used
widely back at DEC.  I never had any problems transfering binary files.

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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Request for Help in Transferring Binary files from Mac to VAX
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Date: 12 Dec 89 18:12:33 GMT
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