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Mass de-binhexing

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From: Laura Ann Lemay
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 16:26
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Hi.

I'm graduating from college soon (2 weeks!!!), and as a result, I've been
furiously FTP-ing everything in sight so I don't have to pay huge dial-up
fees after I graduate....

The problemis that after I spent acouple hours downloading and ftping, I
end upwith a couple hundred files that I need to debinhex.  I go into
Stuffit (or binhex, depending on my mood), select "decode file", select
the file, and wait a bit.  Then I do it again.
BOOORRRRING.

Doing this for a couple megs worth of files is UGLY.  Real ugly.  Major
ugly.  Getting the init that freezes the SFthingy to the current place helped,
but not much.

What I need is some sort of simple utilitiy that will take a folder of files
and massively de-binhex them.  Errors would be recorded, so I could go back
afterwards and fix the files that went bad, but otherwise everything would
just be automates.

Anyone know of any utility like this?  Anyone want to write one?  :-)
And while you're at it, a mass unstuffit would be nice, too, since stuffit
is the de facto utility now for downloading files....


thanx --

Laura Lemay


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From: ll12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laura Ann Lemay)
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Subject: Mass de-binhexing
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Date: 8 May 89 16:26:46 GMT
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