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- >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@polaris.ncs.nova.edu> writes:
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- Fred> I downloaded a mac file with the extension .bin Is it
- Fred> compressed? If not, is it an application or something? I
- Fred> copied it to a mac and used resedit and tried it as an appl
- Fred> and init and it did nothing.
-
- .bin, .Bin and .BIN usually refer to files that have been put in
- MacBinary, also known as BinHex 5 (the 5 is *important*) format. This
- is one of the three most common ways of jamming file information, the
- data fork and the resource fork all into one file. The other two
- formats are HQX, also known as BinHex 4, and AppleSingle.
-
- MacBinary, as the name implies, is a "binary" format, meaning that
- files in this format must be copied using a BINARY, as opposed to
- ASCII copying method. If your file was copied in a binary format, you
- should be able to use "Stuffit Expander" to recover the original file.
-
- NOTE: the original file itself may be an archive and may also be
- compressed. If so, and a popular method was used to do the archival
- and compression, then Stuffit Expander will automatically do the
- remaining steps for you as well.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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