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Article #6952Re: xbin for MacBinary
From: Jim Budler
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1986 05:40
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1986 05:40
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In article <243@unicus.UUCP> rae@unicus.UUCP (Clith de T'nir) writes:
>
> The utility "xbin" converts binhexed files into binary files with
>the names *.rsrc, *.data and *.info. One needs to use Macterminal 1.1
>file transfer format to download these files using "macput". Does there
>exist some other utility (or perhaps a newer version of xbin) that allows
>one to translate binhex format files into MacBinary format files? This would
>be a good thing, since MacBinary is independant of file transfer protocol
>and thus one could use a standard xmodem or kermit program that is already
>on the system, rather than having to keep macput around, which is highly
>Mac-specific.
> Just asking...
>--
> "My surname is Li and my personal name is Kao,
> and there is a slight flaw in my character."
>
>Clith de T'nir {decvax,allegra,ihnp4,pyramid}!utzoo!utcs!yetti!unicus!rae
For those that missed it, apparently many, the utility Macbin converts
the output of xbin to a single MacBinary format file. I wrote it, but am
not terribly proud of it, it was a quick hack. I will send it to the moderator
of mod.mac.sources.
--
Jim Budler
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(408) 749-5806
Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb
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Once and for all: I like my Macintosh
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!amdahl!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: xbin for MacBinary Message-ID: <12846@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 01:40:17 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.12846 Posted: Wed Aug 27 01:40:17 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 11:56:33 EDT References: <243@unicus.UUCP> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 31