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Re: boss! de binhex, de binhex ...

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From: Michael Stoodt
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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Subject: Re: boss! de binhex, de binhex ...
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