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- From: cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu (David Alten)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: .hqx files
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 14:11:37 -0600
- Organization: University of Houston
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- > I have a similar problem with hqx files. The problem with all
- >these solutions is: what if I've downloaded the stuffit program, but the
- >decoding program (stuffit) is itself encoded in hqx??? If I don't have a
- >decoder already, how do I decode this decoding program?
- > In other words, is there any shareware out there for decoding hqx
- >which is available in unencoded form? Or is there any encoded decoding
- >programs that are self decoding/expanding?
- >
- > Sorry for the confusing message, but that's my state of mind
- >right now.
- > Thanks for your help.
-
- What you can do is get the file as MacBinary, denoted by a .bin extension.
- When you download, make sure you set your communications program for "binary"
- transfer. You can get BinHex.bin (only 5K) to decode .hqx files. When you
- get BinHex, you can then get StuffIt Expander 3.0, which will expand the most
- popular (.cpt, .sit, .pkg, .hqx) files for you.
-
- Also, I would like to correct my previous post. I stated that BinHex 5.0
- would not decode .hqx files. It WILL. Surprisingly, only one person (wait
- 'till I get my hands on him $&8@"@$!!!) corrected me.
-
- Later,
-
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