From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 08:58:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA27348 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA27339 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:58:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id RAA00909; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:58:11 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199711061658.RAA00909@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: binhex format? In-Reply-To: from Patrick Gardella at "Nov 6, 97 08:20:30 am" To: patrick@cre8tivegroup.com (Patrick Gardella) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:58:11 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nellie@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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