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In article <0l7y7.1771$Yy5.123299@ozemail.com.au>,
"Allan Cairns" <axcairns@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I am a long time PC user who recently picked up an old PowerMac 7200/90
>running OS 7.6.1 out of curiosity. The Mac has no modem (old corporate
>machine) but I would like to install some shareware/freeware from the net on
>it. I have been trying to do this by downloading the files (with .hqx
>extension) onto my internet connected PC, throw them on a PC-formatted
>floppy and copy them to the Mac. However, at that point I run into PC
>Exchange. When I have this disabled, the Mac will not read the disk. When I
>have it enabled, it insists all the files on the disk (with .hqx extension)
>are PC Text Files!

That's because they are. An .hqx file is a text file produced by encoding a
document, application or whatever in 'Binhex' format. Before you can do
anything with the file you need to decode it, which Stuffit Expander can
do. Simply drop the .hqx file on the Stuffit Expander applicaton.

See here for more:

http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/binhex.html