From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 06:36:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA19617 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 06:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (acs@css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA19602 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 06:36:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) From: andrew@ugh.net.au Received: from localhost (acs@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01600; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 01:35:50 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au: acs owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 01:35:50 +1100 (EST) To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: binhex format? In-Reply-To: <19971106102853.10259@lemis.com> Message-ID: X-Meaning-of-Life: none X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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