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From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: binhex format?
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Want me to unstuff it and the tarball it for you?

Patrick


On 06-Nov-97 Greg Lehey wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 07:27:20PM -0500, nellie@home.com wrote:
>>> I've just been sent some documents in a format called binhex, which
>>> I've never heard of up till now.  We don't seem to have it in the
>>> Ports Collection, and all the searches I've seen have only given DOS
>>> programs.  Does anybody know how I can decipher this stuff?
>>>
>>> Greg
>>
>> Binhex is a macintosh encoding which actually makes a file bigger, go
>> figure...  Anyhow for Macintosh you need a program called Stuffit Expander
>> to decode it.  It is shareware so do a web search on it.
>
>Thanks, but I don't have a Mac.  I'm looking for a UNIX version.
>
>Greg