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In <29793@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> alvisd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (dean alvis):
> Can someone out there help this novice by explaining the steps
> needed to transfer a *.hqx type file (BinHex 4.0) on a unix
> system down to a Mac?

	You need to copy the hqx file to your mac using some sort of file
transfer program.  I use NCSA telnet, but kermit, or just about any other
communications program for the mac should be able to handle ascii file
transfer.  Once you have the file on your mac, then you have to unbinhex.
I use StuffIt for the unbinhexing, but other programs should work too.

	Once you've got it unbinhexed, you might possibly have to do more
processing; many binhex files yield StuffIt archives, which in turn need to
be unpacked.

	My gripe is the number of steps it takes me to get a file from some
ftp server.  A typical sequence is to ftp the binhex file to my Sun and
then ftp it to my Mac (NCSA telnet lacks client ftp, hence the need for the
intermediate staging on the Sun).  Then I have to unbinhex it.  Then I have
to unstuff it (this is especially annoying when the stuffit archive
contains but a single file!).  Somehow it seems all these functions could
be combined into one program.
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