SUMMARY: BinHex decompression utility

From: Michel Pilon (pilonm@CCG.RNCan.gc.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 27 1996 - 09:12:41 CST


Hello Sun friends,

(This list is really useful :-)

Here is my orginal question:

> Is there a utility somewhere (running on solaris 2.5) which let me
> uncompress a BinHex file (from MacIntosh)?

And the answers are:

1) download Macutil version 2.0b1 (macutil-20b1-unix.shar) from the site
   ftp.univie.ac.at (193.170.56.40) under the directory /mac/info-mac/cmp.
              FILE -rw-r--r-- 405155 bytes 20:00 16 Aug 1992
             
   3 utilities are there: hexbin, macunpack and macsave.
   
   with hexbin and macunpack you can uncompress files compressed with a lot
   of different MacIntosh product.
   
   I got one error using Sun C compiler during the compilation under
   Solaris 2.5: you should modify the file /macutil/util/transname.c
   and comment #include <sys/dir.h>
   and add instead #include <sys/param.h>
                         #include <sys/fs/ufs_fsdir.h>
                         
   If you want the binary code for hexbin and macunpack, just let me know.
   
   To get the data fork only of the file, you should use:
   
                   hexbin -d <filename>
                   macunpack -d <filename>
   
2) "Try "cap" a package for emulating Apple Share on UNIX
    It's from the Columbia Univesity."

        I did not try this one.
            
3) ftp://ftp.mgull.ac.ru/pub/unix/mac_util/macutil2.0b3.tgz

        New version of macutil? Seems to be...
    
4) "Try 'mcvert' (UK SunSite) ".

        I did not try this one.
        
        
A big thank you to the following people:

charest@chou.CANR.Hydro.Qc.Ca (Claude Charest) Merci pour l'offre :-)
kpischke@cadence.com (Karlheinz Pischke)
Mark Bergman <bergman@phri.nyu.edu>
Ed Dawes <ccsed@niss.ac.uk> Thank you for the binary file :-)
"Andrey A. Perminov" <and@mgul.ac.ru>
Glenn Carver <glenn@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk>
nobroin@esoc.esa.de Niall O Broin
Erin Copeland <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch> Thank you for your offer :-)
rangern@CIRANO.UMontreal.CA (Normand Ranger)

    



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