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- From: neilc@orca.ucd.ie (Neil Cafferkey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Mac_Hqs_And_Bin_HELP
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 10:11:50 GMT
- Organization: University College Dublin Internet Society
- Message-ID: <4g1l96$qvi@hermes.ucd.ie>
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- William F. Maddock (wmaddock@icon-stl.net) wrote:
- : >but i does not understand the program! i DID manage to do something with the
- : >file!!! after 123123 hours ig ot "s760223.bin" out of the file "S760223.hqx"
- :
- : OK, you've un-binhexed the thing, now you probably need to unarc it again. it
- : *might* be a self-extracting archive (these should *not* be allowed on
- : Internet!) in which case you'll need a mac or a mac emulator. I would suggest
- : the archive amimactools10a.lha if macvert fails you.
-
- An extracted .hqx file is usually a "Stuffit" file (.sit). When this is
- extracted it usually becomes an executable, but sometimes it becomes a
- self-extracting archive. If you have access to a mac or emulator, then
- Stuffit Expander will do all these convertions.
-
- Neil Cafferkey (neilc@orca.ucd.ie)
-