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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA07170 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 26 May 1995 03:08:40 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id EAA21608; Fri, 26 May 1995 04:08:35 -0600 Received: by mailhost (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sEwI5-000YblC; Fri, 26 May 95 04:06 MDT Message-Id: <m0sEwI5-000YblC@mailhost> Date: Fri, 26 May 95 04:06 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: BIN? In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950525112628.23598A-100000@polaris> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950525112628.23598A-100000@polaris> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu> writes: Fred> I downloaded a mac file with the extension .bin Is it Fred> compressed? If not, is it an application or something? I Fred> copied it to a mac and used resedit and tried it as an appl Fred> and init and it did nothing. .bin, .Bin and .BIN usually refer to files that have been put in MacBinary, also known as BinHex 5 (the 5 is *important*) format. This is one of the three most common ways of jamming file information, the data fork and the resource fork all into one file. The other two formats are HQX, also known as BinHex 4, and AppleSingle. MacBinary, as the name implies, is a "binary" format, meaning that files in this format must be copied using a BINARY, as opposed to ASCII copying method. If your file was copied in a binary format, you should be able to use "Stuffit Expander" to recover the original file. NOTE: the original file itself may be an archive and may also be compressed. If so, and a popular method was used to do the archival and compression, then Stuffit Expander will automatically do the remaining steps for you as well. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com