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- From: dmc@cc.gatech.edu (David M. Carlson)
- Subject: Re: BINHEX encoder/decoder for Unix?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.170103.598@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Reply-To: dmc@cc.gatech.edu (David M. Carlson)
- Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- References: <5026@equinox.unr.edu> <1h9c8nINNbco@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:01:03 GMT
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- In article <1h9c8nINNbco@agate.berkeley.edu> jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel) writes:
- >In article <5026@equinox.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
- >>Does anyone know of a BINHEX decoder (and, hopefully, encoder) that
- >>will run on Unix?
- >>
- >>I've checked archie, and been unable to find anything with "binhex"
- >>in the name.
- >>
- >>Thanks in advance for any info.
- >The program is called mcvert; it's archived at
- >sumex-aim.stanford.edu under /info-mac/unix/mcvert-188.shar. I
- >*think* it will encode as well as decode, but I haven't used that.
- >Check the man page. (You have to use unshar to get it out of the
- >.shar format, and may need to use make to get an executable.)
- >
- Take a look at macutil. I can't remember where I got it, but archie has that
- info. After you unshar macutil, you have to compile everything, and that
- includes an executable called hexbin which does binhex in reverse
- (for BinHex 4.0). Also included is an executable called macunpack which
- handles (decompresses) things like .sit and BinHex 5.0 on Unix machines (could
- be very useful if you do not have zmodem).
-
- There is a man page that explains all the command line options.
-
- I don't really have a use for binhexing things in Unix, but I think that
- mcvert works ok for that??
-
- David
- David Carlson - dmc@cc.gatech.edu
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