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From: ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
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Subject: Re: Patching together hqx files...
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Date: 2 May 90 12:40:15 GMT
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douglas@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Douglas Mason) writes:
>
>While I understand how it all works and how to convert the
>files, is there any simple way to string together files that are broken
>down into 5 or so segments?

While reading comp.binaries.mac I do this:

  1) save each segment into the same file (appended)
  2) type 'mcvert filename'
  3) and then 'rm filename.hqx'
  4) what I have left over is something of the form 'filename.sit.bin'
	   this file is a plain binary stuffit file ready for downloading.	 

So far, this has worked no matter how many separate segments there are.

The 'mcvert' source is available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the unix
directory. It compiled fine on our system. You might also want to investigate
related files like 'bhcomb', 'unsit', and so forth...

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Piper Keairnes                  **  General Consultant-UNIX/VM/IBM/MAC  **
ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu            **       Macintosh Specialist       **
Purdue Univ. Computing Center