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From: mas@ulysses.att.com (Michael A. Schoen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: binhexing
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Date: 7 Aug 90 16:21:28 GMT
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I have a few questions regarding binhexing and macbinary.

First, I think Zterm 0.85 has a bug in its macbinary usage.  It seems that
when I batch send macbinary files (converted from .hqx by mcvert), the
first file is done correctly (ie set to SIT!/SIT!) and everything looks fine.
For the rest of the files, however, the type is  ????/????, and when I
manually set it to SIT!/SIT!, Stuffit says it is a corrupted archive.
What is wrong here?

I like Zterm's zmodem protocol, because I have noisy phone lines, and 
most other protocols give up after a few transmission errors.  So, I have
resigned myself to transferring .hqx files and unbinhexing them.  I am
now tring DDExpand's fast unsit capabilities, and was wondering if anyone
knew of any batch binhex applications.  SOmeone a while back posted a binhex
DA, but it doesn't work on an SE.  And there is a batch-binhex application
somewhere, but as I remember, it only works from Mac->binhex, not the
other way around.

It seems like a fairly trivial program to write, just a mcvert for the Mac.
Perhaps the author of mcvert would be willing to throw something together?

Thanks for any help.

 
Michael A. Schoen
AT&T Bell Laboratories (provided for identification only)
mas@ulysses.att.com