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- Short: Mac .bin/sit/cpt/hqx/sea conversion (PPC), incl. source
- Type: util/arc
- Uploader: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
- Author: (various, see below)
-
- mcvert runs under UNIX and converts between different representations
- of Mac files. One very common conversion is between BinHex4.0 and
- MacBinary.
-
- More details regarding file formats may be found in the mcvert.1 man
- page, but basically, there are native Mac files that live (only) on
- the Mac (since they have interesting internal structure), and
- representations of Mac files.
-
- Files are often identified by extensions, those .ext suffixes at the
- end of the name. Common suffixes include:
-
- .bin MacBinary
- .sit StuffIt
- .cpt CompactPro
- .hqx BinHex4.0
- .sea self extracting archive
-
- Well, this now is a port for powerUP (TM) PPC systems,
- based on the original unix sources.
-
- ELF binary is called "xbin.elf", "e" bit already set
- (so that you can run it directly from Shell using the
- ElfLoadSeg patch - otherwise please use "RunElf").
-
- For source changes necessary for the PPC port, please
- take a look into "changes.powerup".
-
- The program itself hopefully still does work fine...
-
- --
- ARK, 8/Apr/98
-
- ***********************************************************
-
- AUTHORS
- Doug Moore, Cornell University Computer Science. Based upon xbin by
- Dave Johnson, Brown University, as modified by Guido van Rossum, and
- upon unpit by Allan G. Weber, as well as upon correspondence with
- several helpful readers of USENET.
-
- Joseph P. Skudlarek (Jskud@wv.MentorG.com) made numerous enhancement
- and maintenance releases. See the comments in mcvert.c for additional
- supporting characters.
-
-