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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:58:51 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        nellie@home.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: binhex format?
Message-ID:  <19971106105851.03293@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <v0311070ab086bf1bea83@[24.3.111.2]>; from nellie@home.com on Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 07:27:20PM -0500
References:  <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com> <v0311070ab086bf1bea83@[24.3.111.2]>

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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.

Greg



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