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- From: bowman@reed.edu (BoBolicious)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Where does BinHex live?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.214224.2764@reed.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:42:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan7.214224.2764
- References: <1ii0ddINN6hr@shelley.u.washington.edu> <7JAN199314501289@vx.cis.umn.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <7JAN199314501289@vx.cis.umn.edu> soc1070 writes:
- >In article <1ii0ddINN6hr@shelley.u.washington.edu>, chuckb@stein.u.washington.edu (Charles Bass) writes...
- >>If someone can tell me where BinHex lives I would be grateful.
-
- >The best utility I've found for encoding/decoding BinHex files (.hqx) is
- >Stuffit 1.5.1. I tried about two or three BinHex-specific utilities
- >(BinHex 4.0, etc), and none are as reliable as stuffit. The commands
- >are under the OTHER menu.
-
- Far better, IMO, is "Stuffit Expander" if you just want to debinhex stuff.
- It knows many formats (binhex,stuffit,compactor, others) & is smart &
- configurable for *very easy* drag'n'drop unstuffing. It's on all the
- major ftp sites except ftp.apple.com (I think...).
-
- chairs,
- bobo In seeking the unattainable,
- bowman@reed.edu simplicity only gets in the way.
- "On Monday, numbers floated everywhere, and the world was full of
- approximations." -- Spencer Heinz, _The Oregonian_, 1/5/93
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