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Article #18949Re: Thanks... (bootstrapping BinHex)
From: Marc Russell Pawliger
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1987 19:04
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1987 19:04
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The orignal BinHex (v 2.0 I believe) was actually created by an MS Basic program that wrote a whole bunch of hex data out to a file. It then diddled with the header to get the resource and data forks set up right, and viola, there was BinHex. You could then use this version to download the newer binhex's and use them. Kind of a double bootstrap. I used to have this laying around, but I can't seem to find it now. I suppose that someone could redo this for the current version of BinHex, again running on the assumption that everyone has MS basic. Marc Pawliger
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!PT!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1w+ From: mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Thanks... (bootstrapping BinHex) Message-ID: <kVFOMey00V4AwqI0c4@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 15:04:10 EDT Article-I.D.: andrew.kVFOMey00V4AwqI0c4 Posted: Wed Sep 9 15:04:10 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 11:00:38 EDT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 11