Re: MacIntosh diskettes

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Nils Rennebarth <nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

[snip]

> > The solution is to use pc format disks, which both the mac & linux can
> > read & write. 
> This needs special programs on the MAC that may not be there.
> And it's rather inconvenient.

Before I found hfsutils (i.e. when I still had Slackware) I used a
"special program" that was quite useful, called suntar.  I believe it
came off an Infomac mirror (under cmp).  Suntar lets you take
arbitrarily large files and store them as tar files on multiple
floppies.

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