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- BeHead v1.0 by John Rawnsley
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- BeHead is a program to remove the MacBinary header from files uploaded
- by Macintoshes in MacBinary mode.
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- In order to preserve the file/creator relationship and icons used by
- the Macintosh Finder when files are uploaded to non-Macintosh file
- systems, Macintosh files are encoded into MacBinary format. This can
- be a problem if the files are general binary files (e.g. .ZIP
- archives) intended for use by non-Macintosh computers.
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- MacBinary encoded files have a header which allows them to be reliably
- identified and the original file extracted. BeHead is a program which
- can parse this header and extract the data.
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- Usage is simple. The command
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- bh filename.ext
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- will open the file "filename.ext", check it for a MacBinary header,
- and if one is found extract the data into a new file called
- "filename.dat" in the same directory as the original file. If
- "filename.dat" already exists then the user will be prompted before
- overwriting.
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- Make sure there is enough space on the disk to hold two full copies of
- "filename.ext".
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- BeHead is copyright but may be freely copied and distributed.
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- Report any problems or suggestions to John Rawnsley, 100015,632.
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