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- <H1>10.13. Standard module <CODE>binhex</CODE></H1>
- This module encodes and decodes files in binhex4 format, a format
- allowing representation of Macintosh files in ASCII. On the macintosh,
- both forks of a file and the finder information are encoded (or
- decoded), on other platforms only the data fork is handled.
- <P>
- The <CODE>binhex</CODE> module defines the following functions:
- <P>
- <DL><DT><B>binhex</B> (<VAR>input</VAR>, <VAR>output</VAR>) -- function of module binhex<DD>
- Convert a binary file with filename <VAR>input</VAR> to binhex file
- <VAR>output</VAR>. The <VAR>output</VAR> parameter can either be a filename or a
- file-like object (any object supporting a <VAR>write</VAR> and <VAR>close</VAR>
- method).
- </DL>
- <DL><DT><B>hexbin</B> (<VAR>input</VAR>[, <VAR>output</VAR>]) -- function of module binhex<DD>
- Decode a binhex file <VAR>input</VAR>. <VAR>Input</VAR> may be a filename or a
- file-like object supporting <VAR>read</VAR> and <VAR>close</VAR> methods.
- The resulting file is written to a file named <VAR>output</VAR>, unless the
- argument is empty in which case the output filename is read from the
- binhex file.
- </DL>
- <H2>Menu</H2><DL COMPACT>
- <DT><A HREF="../n/notes" TYPE=Menu>notes</A>
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