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Article #12239Re: boss! de binhex, de binhex ...
From: Michael Stoodt
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:22
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:22
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In <1992Aug21.174455.3883@spock.retix.com> tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.142511.6211@samba.oit.unc.edu> Andrew.Brennan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Brennan) writes:
>> Ok - this isn't for me. But I *know* a FTP leech :^)
>>
>> Anyone know of a batch de-binhex'r? You know ... you get a
>> lot of startup screens at one time - 15 .hqx's and you have to
>> convert them all ...
>>
>> andrew. (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)
>I use a prog called Downline. You can configure it to sit around
>polling a specific folder (your download folder). When it finds a
>stuffed, binhex'd or packed file, it will expand them (optionally into
>individual folders and optionally delete the originals).
>I'm not sure where it is just now, but check archie.
>P.S., I use it under 6.0.7 - not sure if its ok for 7.
With Userland Frontier and Stuffit [Deluxe|Light] 3.0, it probably
wouldn't be difficult to write an agent script to do this (someone
probably already has)...
--
Michael A Stoodt [MaS] stoodt@cis.umassd.edu
"Will the last person to leave the planet please turn off the sun?"
- Mike Resnick
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!cis.umassd.edu!stoodt From: stoodt@cis.umassd.edu (Michael Stoodt) Subject: Re: boss! de binhex, de binhex ... Message-ID: <1992Aug22.152233.16625@cis.umassd.edu> Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth References: <1992Aug21.142511.6211@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Aug21.174455.3883@spock.retix.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:22:33 GMT Lines: 24