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From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: What to do with comp.binaries.mac?
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.222319.7465@techbook.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 22:23:19 GMT
Reply-To: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix
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I get the files in comp.binaries.mac and move them off to another directory,
the idea being to build up an archive of mac stuff.  My problem is, what do
I do with these files?  They all seem to be in BinHex format or some other
type of ASCII encoding.  Is there a program that runs under UNIX that I can 
use to convert them to binaries?  They're taking up more space when they're
encoded, plus people have to find all X parts of the encoded file.  It seems
like it would be much nicer to deal with one binary file.

I don't have a Mac, so I can't download them to a Mac, convert them and then
send them back.  I don't really want to have anybody else do this (assuming
that I could find someone to do it) because the nice thing about cbm is that
I know where they came from, and the odds of a virus being in the files seems
to be quite small.  If someone else converted the file, I wouldn't know where
the problem was introduced.

Suggestions, please.