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From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How can I get BinHex 4.0 ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.172727.21634@pmafire.inel.gov>
Date: 15 Mar 91 17:27:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.204739.2704@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991Mar14.191050.4679@pmafire.inel.gov>
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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I wrote:
>>Does anyone out there know how I can get BinHex 4.0?
>
>From Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, posted monthly to
>comp.sys.mac.announce, and which should still be available, since it
>uses an Expires: header:

[rest of answer deleted]

It was pointed out to me in e-mail that this doesn't answer the
question, ``How can I get a copy of BinHex which doesn't require
BinHex?'' -- an interesting Catch-22 indeed.

Options to try (see previous post for details about the various programs
which can decode binhex):

	If you're on a Unix box, try mcvert.

	Try getting getting StuffIt or Compact Pro (or BinHex if they have
	it) from a local users group.

	Check with another Mac user local to you who may have one of the
	programs which can decode BinHex.

	Download one of the programs from CompuServe, Genie, etc., where
	they aren't BinHexed.

	Buy a disk from Educorp or BMUG or whatever that includes one of
	the programs.

	Try to talk one of the archive sites into making a binary (i.e.
	non-BinHexed) copy of BinHex (or StuffIt or Compact Pro)
	available for ftp.  You wouldn't be able to get this by mail
	unless it were uuencoded, which doesn't do you much good unless
	you're on a Unix box, and in which case you could use mcvert,
	but at least ftp allows a few people to be able to get it.
	(The convincing is left as an exercise for the reader. :^) )

Hope this may help anyone out there who's in this pickle.

-- 
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