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- From: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Eric Bush)
- Subject: Re: Help with binhex
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- In article <1992Aug28.195516.1996@hou.amoco.com> zawr02@hou.amoco.com writes:
- >Hello Mac gurus. This may be the idiot question of the day. I am a novice at
- >MacIntosh, having aquired a brand-new second-hand SE/30. (I am experienced
- >with systems like Sun workstations and IBM mainframes.) I have pulled several
- >files from ftp sites that have the extension .hqx. I assume that means they h
- ave
- >been compressed with binhex. My question is what software is required to
- >debinhex the files? Does the software come with System7? Is it something I
- >need to buy from Apple? Do I need to get the software via ftp? If it is the
- last
- >case, will it come compressed with binhex? ;-)
- >
- >Thanks in advance for the enlightment.
- >---
- >
- I will email a uuencoded version of BinHex 4.0 to you. You can use it to
- get Stuffit-Lite or Compact Pro which are available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- ftp site which are the two major compaction programs used.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Eric
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