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David Williams (Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Can anyone help please.

Dave,

: 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.


I'm hoping someone will come along with a more exact explaination of what 
you have to do.  Here is what you need to do.

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.

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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

In article <3t36au$1vb@hang.primenet.com> clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn
Juniel/Effective Software Solutions) writes:
>
>Hopefully someone will come along 
>with a name of a program on the mac that can UUDECODE.

I use UULite.  It works well and simply.
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In article <3t36au$1vb@hang.primenet.com>,
clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solution wrote:

>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.

I reckon the best long term solution to all these problems is going to be
something like the Iomega Zip drive. 100Mb per floppy (and �15, but that'll
come down) and �150 per drive, which makes it all very affordable.
Multi-platform apparently, comes for Mac, DOS and OS/2. It'll cut out all
that compression and multipart file guff. 

Peter

In article <804630148.6937@imp.demon.co.uk>,
hemal@popath.demon.co.uk (Hemal Popat) wrote:

>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.
>--

But I believe he wanted to archive his images on a PC, to be extracted on a
picture bureau's Mac.

Zipit, on the Mac, handles PKZip 2.04g files, but the version I have
registered, 1.3.2b2, fails on multi-floppy archives. Specifically it falls
over when trying to extract multi-floppy archives created on a PC. I don't
know if Tommy Brown has fixed it- maybe he has.

If there was a capable Compactpro archiver for the PC, that should work. 

Peter

In article <804605893.13427@imp.demon.co.uk>
           Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk "David Williams" writes:

> The print company I use to print brochures, etc.
> can accept files created using Wordperfect for
> Windows in EPS format.  To transfer these files
> between my computer and their Mac I have been
> copying the files to 1.44Mb floppies which their
> machine can read.  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.

An unzipper compatible with PKZip 2.04g (accept no later versions!)
should be available for the MAC. If you use the -& option on PKZip,
then if the ZIP file is too big for one disc, it will span several
discs.

-- 
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If you're one of those people who wish they'd never been born
You wouldn't have been if only they'd seen the end of the condom was torn

>In article <804605893.13427@imp.demon.co.uk>, Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk
>wrote:

>> Can anyone help please.
>> 
>> The print company I use to print brochures, etc.
>> can accept files created using Wordperfect for
>> Windows in EPS format.  To transfer these files
>> between my computer and their Mac I have been
>> copying the files to 1.44Mb floppies which their
>> machine can read.  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.
>> 
>> I'm hoping that someone else has dealt with this
>> problem and can advise me.  All help will be most
>> appreciated.

For Mac to PC xfers, you can use segmented Compact Pro archives.

For PC to Mac and Mac to PC xfers, you can use segmented Zip archives.

For info on where to get the software to do either of these, check out my web 
page: http://www.mps.org/~ebennett

-Ericb@psu.edu

In article <804605893.13427@imp.demon.co.uk>, Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk
wrote:

> Can anyone help please.
> 
> The print company I use to print brochures, etc.
> can accept files created using Wordperfect for
> Windows in EPS format.  To transfer these files
> between my computer and their Mac I have been
> copying the files to 1.44Mb floppies which their
> machine can read.  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.
> 
> I'm hoping that someone else has dealt with this
> problem and can advise me.  All help will be most
> appreciated.
> 
You could use Maclink pro, which is basically a NULL modem and file
translation package between the Mac and PC providing you have a PC you can
connect to via modem or Null modem.

If you can be more specific as to the situation, give me a shout.

TTFN, Mark.

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Mark Berry (igirisujin@mberry.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <804605893.13427@imp.demon.co.uk>, Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk
: wrote:

: > Can anyone help please.
: > 
: > The print company I use to print brochures, etc.
: > can accept files created using Wordperfect for
: > Windows in EPS format.  To transfer these files
: > between my computer and their Mac I have been
: > copying the files to 1.44Mb floppies which their
: > machine can read.  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.
: > 
: > I'm hoping that someone else has dealt with this
: > problem and can advise me.  All help will be most
: > appreciated.
: > 
Have you tried compressing them on the mac? There are several programs 
that can compress into standard pc formats.  Stuffit Dexul can do it, so 
can the shareware prog ZipIt.

natasha@gate.net
Windows-(n) The Fisher Price version of the Macintosh OS.

>  In article <804605893.13427@imp.demon.co.uk>, Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk
>  wrote:

>  > To transfer these files
>  > between my computer and their Mac I have been
>  > copying the files to 1.44Mb floppies which their
>  > machine can read.  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.

Zip is common to both platforms. And that compresses usually to 50%. So you
could get 2.8Mb on a floppy

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>> machine can read.  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.
>> 
There is MacZIP which lets you zip and unzip files (compress them). If
your printer has MacZIP it should be no problem. You (they) can
download it from the Net.

You then zip the files on your PC and they use MacZIP to unzip them.

chris

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

>Can anyone help please.

>The print company I use to print brochures, etc.
>can accept files created using Wordperfect for
>Windows in EPS format.  To transfer these files
>between my computer and their Mac I have been
>copying the files to 1.44Mb floppies which their
>machine can read.  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.

Many thanks to everyone for your help and advice.
Having approached the printing company with your
many helpful ideas I discovered the company to be
run by a gentleman of limited imagination who was
unwilling to accomodate any suggestions.  So the
upshot is - we changed to a company that has PCs
and who are interested in providing a complete
service to their clients.

Many thanks
Dave
-Bye-
~==============~=================~
 David Williams, System Solutions, 
 Sys_Sol@intersys.demon.co.uk
 73604.12@compuserve.com

igirisujin@mberry.demon.co.uk (Mark Berry) wrote:


>> 
>You could use Maclink pro, which is basically a NULL modem and file
>translation package between the Mac and PC providing you have a PC you can
>connect to via modem or Null modem.

Many places accept files by modem.  Have you asked?

Tony

Tony Clixby - Bebington - Wirral - UK
email tony@clixby.demon.co.uk