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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

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