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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: MacIntosh utils for OS/2
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 08:38:39 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- I have compiled some Mac utilities for OS/2. You can do file conversions
- and unpack many Mac archive types (stuffit, compactor etc.) I've also
- thrown in a program to convert Mac Adobe Type 1 fonts into Type 1 fonts
- usable with OS/2.
-
- The files are macutils.exe.zip (programs) macutils.src.zip (source code)
- macutils.txt (upload desciption). They are on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
- /pub/uploads, but they will be moved to some other directory in a while.
-
- -you need the EMX DLLs to use these programs
- -I didn't write these, I just ported them. Hopefully they don't have many
- bugs.
-
-
- here's the read.me file:
-
- This archive contains several compiled utilies for use in OS/2.
- They were comiled with the EMX/GCC compiler, and you *MUST* have the
- files EMX.DLL, EMXLIBC.DLL, and EMXIO.DLL (version 0.8e or higher)
- These can be found the EMX package available on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, among
- other places. The DLLs must be installed in a directory that is listed
- in the LIBPATH entry in config.sys.
-
-
- These utilities are for using MacIntosh files and archives under OS/2.
- Compiled by John Paul Morrison (jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca)
-
- Source code is available seperately.
-
- binhex, hexbin, macsave, macstream, macunpack:
- written by Dik Winter (dik@cwi.nl)
-
- unpost
- written by I. Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu)
- unpost is part of a larger package, but only unpost relates to
- the Mac. (unpost is part of t1utils, also available on ftp-os2)
-
- I haven't tested these programs that thoroughly, but macunpack, binhex and
- hexbin seam to work. Send me e-mail if anything seams strange, or contact
- the original author (although they won't know anything about the OS/2 port).
-
- Quick Tip:
- these utils can be used to unpack fonts for the MacIntosh. Mac Fonts
- are very commonly available for copying, and the Mac ones are
- usually better quality.
-
- .hqx files need to be converted with hexbin
-
- .sit, .cpt etc need to be unpacked with macunpack
- use macunpack -3 file to unpack, as this will split
- up the Mac info and resource forks, from the useful data.
-
- if you want to get Adobe Type 1 fonts working, use
- unpost -br font.rsrc font.pfb to make a .pfb file useable
- under OS/2.
- The font.afm.data should be useable under OS/2 without
- more conversion. (?) Anyway, the AFM is a text file, and
- macunpack -3u ... when extracting the AFM file will convert
- it to UNIX text format; you can use your own utils to convert
- the UNIX format into OS/2 text format.
-
- You should then make sure you have font.afm and font.pfb
- (rename if needed) and then you can install the fonts under
- OS/2. I've converted several Mac Type 1 fonts, and I got them
- working fine.
-
-
- BUGS:
- I have made NO attempt whatsoever to support the MSDOS/FAT 8.3
- filename format. If you don't like that, get the source code and
- change it. Anyone with OS/2 should have at least one HPFS partition
- anyway.
-
- There is no option to convert Mac text files into OS/2 text files.
- There is an option to convert Mac text files into UNIX text files.
- Maybe I'll add the feature, or bug the author to add that later.
-
-
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