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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:53:01 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>,
        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: binhex format?
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On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 10:20:38PM -0600, John Kenagy wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 06:12:32PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:
>>> A search for "binhex" on http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ finds
>>>
>>> /usr/ports/converters/uudeview
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> /usr/ports/converters/xdeview
>>>
>>> both of which claim to do BinHex.  (can also be found using
>>> "grep -i binhex /usr/ports/INDEX")
>>
>> Oops.  And I thought I'd checked everywhere...
>
> Let us know if these work.  I tried them both on some files
> purporting to be binhex with nothing to show for it. I did not
> know if I was doing it wrong or what.
>
> Sender later used a different format that xdeview worked fine on.

Thanks to everybody who answered this question.  I chickened out and
let somebody with a Mac decode it for me :-) I suppose some time I'll
follow up the other suggestions.

Greg