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- XBIN (local) 24 Mar 1985 XBIN (local)
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- NAME
- xbin - convert mailable format BinHex file into binary
- before downloading to MacTerminal
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- SYNOPSIS
- xbin [ -o ] [ -v ] [ -l ] [[ -n name ] file] ...
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- DESCRIPTION
- Xbin converts a file created by BinHex (usually named with
- one of the extensions ".hex", ".hcx", or ".hqx") into three
- host-system files suitable for downloading to a Macintosh
- via macput. This program is designed for use with the 1.1
- Release version of MacTerminal, but includes a compatibility
- option for the old -0.15X Almost-Alpha version.
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- The -l (list) option reads the header information and
- prints out all the useful information there, without
- creating any converted output files.
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- The -v (verbose) option prints a line for each file to
- be converted, indicating the input and output file names.
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- The -n name option allows the user to specify the name
- to use when creating the host files and the eventual name to
- use on the mac. This option must precede the input file
- name it is to affect.
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- If this option is not used, the names will be derived
- from either the input file name (.hex or .hcx files), or the
- name encoded in the header information (.hqx files). Spaces
- and slashes will be converted to underscores, and the .h?x
- extension will be deleted, if one is included in the input
- file name.
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- A file name of "-" indicates that the input should be
- taken from stdin. If no mac file name is specified, the
- default name (for .hex or .hcx files) is "stdin".
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- Mail or news headers and signatures need not be
- manually stripped -- xbin will ignore pretty much anything
- it doesn't need.
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- xbin creates three host-system files from each input
- file: name.info, name.data, and name.rsrc.
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- The -o flag specifies "old" (version -0.15X)
- MacTerminal compatibility mode.
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- BUGS
- The "LOCKED" bit in the flags cannot be set by xbin. This
- is due to a bug in MacTerminal, which sets the flags when
- the file is created, rather than after it has been
- transfered, resulting in it not being able to write the
- file.
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- Input files must contain a line starting with "(This
- file" to detect the beginning of the BinHex information.
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- XBIN (local) 24 Mar 1985 XBIN (local)
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- SEE
- macput(1), macget(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Dave Johnson, Brown 12/16/84; CRC handling code by Darin
- Adler, TMQ Software 3/16/85
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