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- From: roussea@server.uwindsor.ca (ROUSSEAU PAUL )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: what is a .hqx file?
- Message-ID: <2353@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 16:41:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.005148.26178@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@server.uwindsor.ca
- Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- In article <1993Jan1.005148.26178@colorado.edu> wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk) writes:
- >i am trying to help my daughter, who has a mac, and who connects to a
- >unix machine at her location, to get a sensible communication system
- >working between them she has white knight, but has trouble getting it
- >to get files. i picked up mackermit from the umich archive and put it
- >on her unix machine, which i can reach via ftp. but it comes as a .hqx
- >file. where can i find the correct program to convert it to a usable
- >file?
- >--
- >arthur wouk
- >internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
-
- Arthur
-
- ".hqx" means that the file has been compressed or coded as a
- BinHex file. You can get a converter on Compact Pro 1.33 which
- is available as shareware. Check it out with a local Mac users
- group. When you run Compact Pro, you will find the converter
- under the "Misc" menu.
-
- Remember to send the file from the server to your mac as a
- binary file. Once you get the file to your home computer,
- convert it with Compact Pro.
-
- Good luck.
-
- --
- Paul Rousseau INTERNET roussea@uwindsor.ca
- St. Clair Beach "It's too bad ignorance isn't
- Ontario, Canada painful."
- -anonymous
-