From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 17:04:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24641 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24622 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA19754; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:03:44 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id TAA08881; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:03:13 -0600 Message-ID: <19971105190313.18874@right.PCS> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 19:03:13 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: binhex format? References: <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Nov 11, 1997 at 10:28:53AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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