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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:00:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: binhex format?
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Greg, binhex is a Mac format.  There are some unix utils that can decode
it.  Do a search through http://www.shareware.com in their UNIX
category.  They also have a program for Windows called Stuffit Expander
that will handle binhex.

-Joe Clarke

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, 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?
> 
> Greg
>