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Having to break apart downloaded files is a real drag.  Especially when
there are a LOT of files to process.  As Laura Ann Lemay (ll12+@andrew.cmu.edu)
put it in article <wYNPz6y00WB44PDUoC@andrew.cmu.edu>,
>The problem is that after I spent a couple hours downloading and ftping, I
>end up with 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 utility 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 automated.
>
>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....

Laura, I know your dilemma.  Every now and then I go on a downloading spree,
when I transfer pretty much everything in sight to my machine.   Having to
deBinHex and unStuff each file is annoying at best, but I figure it's the price
I must pay to have so much great software literally at my fingertips.

However, one of these days, I'd like to download the entire set of PostScript
fonts from Sumex, but I've been putting it off because I don't particularly
relish the idea of having to prepare each of those files one-by-one for use.

I'll expand on the general request here: Does anyone know of any mass-deBinHex
or mass-unStuffIt utilities that exist for either the Mac or any Unix systems?
I can use my CMS system here to de-BinHex a file before I download it, making
it smaller and more quickly downloaded, but I hesitate to do that on each of
dozens of files at once manually.

And it would be REALLY nice if I could take a BinHexed, Stuffed file on my
Unix system and, in one fell swoop, download it to each of its constituent
files on my Mac, each file ready to go with no further action!  (Dream on...)

Any leads whatsoever are more than welcome!

     << Brian Kendig >>