Re: PC to Mac file transfer-help

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From: Hemal Popat
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 00:00

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clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solutions) wrote:

>David Williams (Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk) wrote:

>: Unfortunately some of my files
>: are in excess of 2Mb in size and so do not fit on
>: the disks.  I am therefore looking for some ideas
>: on how I can possibly compress and/or split these
>: files in such a way that I can pass them onto the
>: print company in a format that their machine can
>: uncompress/reconstruct and read them.

>You can UUENCODE the files.  This will convert the files to text and you 
>can break them into smaller parts.  Hopefully someone will come along 
>with a name of a program on the mac that can UUDECODE.

Not a nice way of doing things, it has to be said! You can get PC based
CompactPro extraction programs (share/freeware), or Mac based PKZip
compression software. I think PKZip 2.0 tends to give slightly tighter
compression.
--
Hemal Popat
hemal@popath.demon.co.uk

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From: hemal@popath.demon.co.uk (Hemal Popat)
Subject: Re: PC to Mac file transfer-help
Date: 1995/07/01
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