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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:27:20 -0500
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: binhex format?
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>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.

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