Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!e260-3f!c60c-3cf From: c60c-3cf@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Dan Kogai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Joining binhexed files? Summary: Just use mcvert! Message-ID: <1990May4.140955.26039@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 4 May 90 14:09:55 GMT References: <1990May3.134238.20598@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Organization: UC Bezerkeley Lines: 36 In article aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) writes: >In article <1990May3.134238.20598@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> beasley@cwns3.INS.CWRU.Edu (William Beasley) writes: > > Low-level question from net novice: > I'm pleased that I've figured out how to FTP Mac files over the net, > and how to un-binhex them and unstuff them to get them working. I'm > comfortable with that now. However, I can't seem to figure out how > to cope with them when they come in multiple parts (foo.1of5, foo.2of5, > etc). Have tried un-binhexing them separately and get error message. > Tried concatenating them and unbinhexing the result and got error message. > There is no doubt a simple and obvious solution. What is it? > >You concatanate the files, but you first have to strip out the header >from them (from 2 on) and any trailer on any of them... Or you can just use mcvert! It's a unix utility that (un)binhexes files. It has multi-unbinhexing capability you are just looking for. It also directly unbinhexes concatenated files without truncating headers. It's an ideal utility for Mac user with unix account. You can get one via sumex-aim and it's at info-mac/unix. It's shard so you just unshar and make it and install. after that all you have to do is "mcvert *.hqx" and it unbinhexes all *.hqx files. No pain. If your site doesn't have one, get it now! --- ################## Dan The "I grok therefore I am God" Man + ____ __ __ + (Aka Dan Kogai) + ||__||__| + E-mail: dankg@ocf.berkeley.edu + ____| ______ + Voice: 415-549-6111 + | |__|__| + USnail: 1730 Laloma Berkeley, CA 94709 + |___ |__|__| + U.S.A + |____|____ + Disclaimer: I'd rather be blackmailed for my long .sig + \_| | + than give up my cool name in Kanji. And my + <- THE MAN -> + citizenship of People's Republic o' Berkeley ################## has nothing 2 do w/ whatever I post, ThanQ.