XBIN

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Updated: 24 Mar 1985
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NAME

xbin - convert mailable format BinHex file into binary before downloading to MacTerminal  

SYNOPSIS

xbin [ -o ] [ -v ] [ -l ] [[ -n name ] file] ...  

DESCRIPTION

Xbin converts a file created by BinHex (usually named with one of the extensions ".hex", ".hcx", or ".hqx") into three host-system files suitable for downloading to a Macintosh via macput. This program is designed for use with the 1.1 Release version of MacTerminal, but includes a compatibility option for the old -0.15X Almost-Alpha version.

The -l (list) option reads the header information and prints out all the useful information there, without creating any converted output files.

The -v (verbose) option prints a line for each file to be converted, indicating the input and output file names.

The -n name option allows the user to specify the name to use when creating the host files and the eventual name to use on the mac. This option must precede the input file name it is to affect.

If this option is not used, the names will be derived from either the input file name (.hex or .hcx files), or the name encoded in the header information (.hqx files). Spaces and slashes will be converted to underscores, and the .h?x extension will be deleted, if one is included in the input file name.

A file name of "-" indicates that the input should be taken from stdin. If no mac file name is specified, the default name (for .hex or .hcx files) is "stdin".

Mail or news headers and signatures need not be manually stripped -- xbin will ignore pretty much anything it doesn't need.

xbin creates three host-system files from each input file: name.info, name.data, and name.rsrc.

The -o flag specifies "old" (version -0.15X) MacTerminal compatibility mode.  

BUGS

The "LOCKED" bit in the flags cannot be set by xbin. This is due to a bug in MacTerminal, which sets the flags when the file is created, rather than after it has been transfered, resulting in it not being able to write the file.

Input files must contain a line starting with "(This file" to detect the beginning of the BinHex information.  

SEE ALSO

macput(1), macget(1)  

AUTHOR

Dave Johnson, Brown 12/16/84; CRC handling code by Darin Adler, TMQ Software 3/16/85


 

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