OT question about Macbook (OS X) file systems

[Rick Stevens]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 17:30 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>>> I think you are over thinking this...
>>>
>>> If you tar the files and untar them on the MacOS HD (HFS+), the symbolic
>>> links should be fine.
>>>
>>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/Aliases.html
>>>
>>> I seriously doubt that bringing in a non-native file system is the
>>> answer you are looking for.
>> Thanks for the link and the advice, Craig.
>>
>> Now that I've looked into things, I agree with you about the
>> non-native filesystem.
>>
>> But I'm missing something fundamental.  How, without being on a
>> network, do I get the 30GB tar file off my disk and onto her computer?
>>
>> Her Mac is in its packing box at the bookstore at her college in
>> Chicago.  I live in Washington. I fly out tomorrow.  In the short time
>> I'll be in Chicago, we'll have little time to mess with computer
>> stuff.  She'll be busy with a million other "freshman orientation"
>> things.  I'm clearly missing the obvious.  Please clue me in.
>> Thanks.
> ----
> a network is 2 computers and a network cable. Since the new MacBook will
> clearly have 1Gb network connection, a simple cable between the 2
> computers is your network and all you need to do is manually address
> them on the same network/subnet and you can transfer the file(s) via
> scp.

And you'd better use a "flipped" cable or it won't work.  Or two
regular cables and a hub/switch.
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