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- From: stoodt@cis.umassd.edu (Michael Stoodt)
- Subject: Re: boss! de binhex, de binhex ...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.152233.16625@cis.umassd.edu>
- Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- References: <1992Aug21.142511.6211@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Aug21.174455.3883@spock.retix.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:22:33 GMT
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- In <1992Aug21.174455.3883@spock.retix.com> tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug21.142511.6211@samba.oit.unc.edu> Andrew.Brennan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Brennan) writes:
- >> Ok - this isn't for me. But I *know* a FTP leech :^)
- >>
- >> Anyone know of a batch de-binhex'r? You know ... you get a
- >> lot of startup screens at one time - 15 .hqx's and you have to
- >> convert them all ...
- >>
- >> andrew. (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)
- >I use a prog called Downline. You can configure it to sit around
- >polling a specific folder (your download folder). When it finds a
- >stuffed, binhex'd or packed file, it will expand them (optionally into
- >individual folders and optionally delete the originals).
- >I'm not sure where it is just now, but check archie.
- >P.S., I use it under 6.0.7 - not sure if its ok for 7.
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- With Userland Frontier and Stuffit [Deluxe|Light] 3.0, it probably
- wouldn't be difficult to write an agent script to do this (someone
- probably already has)...
- --
- Michael A Stoodt [MaS] stoodt@cis.umassd.edu
- "Will the last person to leave the planet please turn off the sun?"
- - Mike Resnick
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