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From: mrhoten@neon.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Paul Rhoten)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: StuffIt<->IBM
Summary: mcvert on sumex
Keywords: stuffit binhex
Message-ID: <1991May26.084134.7015@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 May 91 08:41:34 GMT
References: <1531@loki.une.oz.au>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <1531@loki.une.oz.au> 
rbennett@loki.une.oz.au (Robert Bennetts) writes:
][...]
]	So, are there any programs for IBM compatibles that will convert 
]StuffIt files to some format for IBM, and if there are, were might I be 
]able to FTP    them.
]	Please could someone explain what StuffIt is if it is not what I 
]think  it is.
][...]
]			rbennett@loki.une.oz.au

 Stuffit was a shareware Macintosh program (which recently went commercial)
for compression/decompression of files. It also processes files into and out
of binhex format. Binhex is another program (independent of Stuffit) similar
in function to uuencode. That is, it takes binary files and turns them into
text files suitable for mailing and such. Stuffit is often used by users to
de-binhex files for use on the Macintosh, because it's a little more lenient
about extra headers and such.
 I believe the sources for binhex are available for anonymous ftp, though I
am not certain of this. If you'd like a program to run on a PC-compatible,
you can look for them. I know for certain that there is a program which will
run on BSD systems to do binhex/binary conversions. The program is called
"mcvert", and is available for anonymous ftp from sumex.stanford.edu, in the
directory info-mac/unix. (The numerical address of sumex is 36.44.0.6.)
There are other programs in the same directory for other types of file format
conversions; I have only used mcvert, and can attest it works quite well.
 Hope this is what you wanted.
 -matt

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