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Re: BIN?
>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu> writes:
Fred> I downloaded a mac file with the extension .bin Is it
Fred> compressed? If not, is it an application or something? I
Fred> copied it to a mac and used resedit and tried it as an appl
Fred> and init and it did nothing.
.bin, .Bin and .BIN usually refer to files that have been put in
MacBinary, also known as BinHex 5 (the 5 is *important*) format. This
is one of the three most common ways of jamming file information, the
data fork and the resource fork all into one file. The other two
formats are HQX, also known as BinHex 4, and AppleSingle.
MacBinary, as the name implies, is a "binary" format, meaning that
files in this format must be copied using a BINARY, as opposed to
ASCII copying method. If your file was copied in a binary format, you
should be able to use "Stuffit Expander" to recover the original file.
NOTE: the original file itself may be an archive and may also be
compressed. If so, and a popular method was used to do the archival
and compression, then Stuffit Expander will automatically do the
remaining steps for you as well.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
References:
- BIN?
- From: Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu>