From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 16:26:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA11008 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA11003 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA28265; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:20:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604262320.QAA28265@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Mac Binhex 4.0 file format To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:20:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Apr 26, 96 06:30:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Someone sent me a graphic as an attachment in email, but it's from his > Apple Macintosh system, and encoded as Mac Binhex 4.0. FreeBSD's file > command recognizes the file format, but I don't know of any way to > decompress it, so I can get to the graphic within. Does anyone know of a > Unix program that can decompress this? Or maybe just anything helpful > about this format? Binhex is an ascii readable binary encoding for Mac files, generally including file forks and all that stuff. To look at it, you will have to unbinhex it back to a bin image, then break the image into "resource" and "data" forks, then find a viewer for the data type in the data fork. There's lots of UNIX toold for doing the file manipulation available at gatekeeper.dec.com (and most other FTP sites that do Mac archives). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.