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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:03:13 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: binhex format?
Message-ID:  <19971105190313.18874@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Nov 11, 1997 at 10:28:53AM %2B1030
References:  <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com>

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On Nov 11, 1997 at 10:28:53AM +1030, Greg Lehey 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?
 
Roughly speaking, binhex is to MAC as uuencode is to UNIX.

There is a program called `megatron', part of the netatalk package,
which will unhex it.  There is also a nice program called mcvert,
which will do the translation; I don't know if it is the ports package
or not.
-- 
Jonathan



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