newton@nodename.dec.com (07/01/89)
MacGet and MacPut are used to send files to/receive files from a larger system using MacTerminal. They use three binary files on the host for each Mac file, and thus do not replace BinHex 4.0, which codes Mac files into ASCII format so they can be stored/mailed on any system which supports ASCII text.
steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (07/01/89)
In article <387@mountn.dec.com> newton@nodename.dec.com writes:
#>MacGet and MacPut are used to send files to/receive files from a larger system
#>using MacTerminal. They use three binary files on the host for each Mac file,
#>and thus do not replace BinHex 4.0, which codes Mac files into ASCII format so
#>they can be stored/mailed on any system which supports ASCII text.
While the above is one use of macget and macput, they are more
generally useful. With the -u flag, they can transmit text files
between a Mac and a Unix machine. That's how I print my Email or
interesting usenet messages, for example. There are other flags,
too, but I find -u the most important.
Steve Goldfield