Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:58:11 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de> To: patrick@cre8tivegroup.com (Patrick Gardella) Cc: grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nellie@home.com Subject: Re: binhex format? Message-ID: <199711061658.RAA00909@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971106082051.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> from Patrick Gardella at "Nov 6, 97 08:20:30 am"
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It was Patrick Gardella who wrote: > 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. You might want to search for mcvert or xbin. I needed it some time ago and used mcvert. Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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