Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!im4u!milano!lad-shrike!ut-emx!kraut
From: kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help with ftp (really RE: strip of things at the beginning)
Message-ID: <1466@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 10:26:40 GMT
References: <2678@altura.srcsip.UUCP> <10134@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Summary: better yet, get and use xbin ...

>> the first poster had problems using binHex on files retrieved from SUMEX,
> the second poster suggests that the instructions should be stripped from
> the beginning of the file running binHex ...

and then you can obtain a copy of xbin and macput from the archives.

xbin converts a hex file into 3-resource files (ignoring all the junk at the
beginning until if encounters the magic line with "(This file must be decoded 
with BinHex 4.0)") which you can then download with macput, creating "real"
Macintosh files directly (you must use a terminal emulator which knows how
to do the Mac Xmodem protocol, such as VersaTerm).

there are some other, useful programs, such as macbin you may want to get
familiar with ....  makes me wonder, maybe some of these "basic" Macintosh
tools should be reposted regularly (annually) to benefit the "new kids on the
block" .....  as well as help others obtain the latest versions or that
"great utility" they may have missed .... just a thought (which *REAL*
Usenetters with only comp.binaries.mac as a source for things might want
to pursue; fortunately, I have archives and user-groups to get things from)
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