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From: kcr%rushforth@Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Binhex for unix?
Summary: mcvert
Keywords: mcvert
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Date: 21 Jun 89 19:53:32 GMT
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In article <8906211848.AA26083@cscwam.UMD.EDU> rick@wam.UMD.EDU writes:
>This is going to sound really dumb but does anyone know if there is a
>binhex program for unix and if so where it might be and what it is called.
>I found a few programs that I would like to download but unfortunately thay
>are not binhexed (.hqx) and they won't download right any other way.  Any help
>with this question should be mailed directly to me to avoid cluttering the
>newsgroup.  Thanx

I figured this might be of general interest, so I will post it instead
of mailing it.  There is a program called mcvert -- which is available
from the info-mac archives -- that will convert MacBinary files to and
from BinHex format.  Mcvert also converts data files to and from
MacBinary format, and can thus be used to convert a data file to BinHex
format.  The command:

    mcvert -U -x FileName.bin

will take the MacBinary file "FileName.bin" and produce the BinHex file
"FileName.hqx".  Hope this helps.

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