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Peter_Dusicka@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca writes:

>>  I have several files with the extension
>>  .hqx on it

>Yes Matt, these files can be converted using BinHex or even Compactor has an
>option to convert these files.  I believe that .hqx are binary files but I
>could be wrong.  Compactor is shareware and available almost anywhere.  Same
>goes for BinHex, but I think that's a freeware program.

>BTW what is the difference in hexed and binary file?

>That should do it for ya,

>Petr
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Close, but not quite. Binhexed files are TEXT files, so they can go over
a UNIX network.  Use BinHex4.0, StuffIt, StuffIt LITE, Compactor, or
Compact Pro to turn those into binary.

The difference between binhexed and binary files is that inhexed ones
are text, binary are not.

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