Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 01:35:50 +1100 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: binhex format? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971107013004.1244K-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com>
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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? Its a format used on macs. The bin bit is MacBinary and is used to put the data and resource fork of files into a format that can be stored on file systems that dont support two forks (such as ufs,FAT etc). hqx is a format to translate the file to ASCII text so they can be sent via email etc. Tools to deal with these files ar ein the ports collection somewhere I beleive but also come with netatalk or go to your local umich mirror (ftp://ftp.tas.gov.au/mac/umich/utils/unix/ if you cant find your local one) and look in utils/unix for macutils (or one of the other myriad of progrmas). If all else fails I can stick some tools up for FTP. Andrew
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