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From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: some hints to deal with hexed binaries ...
Summary: sed-script to combine multiple part hex-postings.  works MOST of the time
Keywords: combhex, xbin, macbin, macput, macget, kermit, macbinary, unsit, unpit
Message-ID: <3302@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 19:18:27 GMT
References: <335@banyan.UUCP> <wXNRqpy00XoB45YUot@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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	hexed sources that arrive here in multi-part section get processed 
	with the following sed-script (should work on your Unix-box):

#
# usage:  combhex <files>
#
# Note: file "combhex.rc" contains the following line (minus the "#")
#       followed by a blank line:
#(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
#
cat /usr/local/lib/combhex.rc $* |\
         sed -n -e 1,2p -e '/ /d' -e '/ /d' -e '/^---$/d' -e '/./p' > $1.hqx

	simple save all the parts into one file, or call combhex with the
	list of file-names (in the correct order) of the parts, and combhex
	will (most of the time) strip all the "noise" so that you can use
	xbin next.  (Often the first-part message contains some basic docs
	which you should extract into a separate file as the information will
	not be preserved in the following process).

	an output file is created named <something>.hqx (let's say a.hqx)

	this can be downloaded either with xmodem, kermit, macput -u, and
	processed with BinHex or StuffIt on the Mar,  or:

	it gets processed on the Unix-box with xbin, which converts it into
	3 forks familiar as the normal MAC-file-format.

	these MAC-files can be downloaded with "macput" setting the Mac up
	to expect MacXmodem format, or:

	I combine the 3 forks with macbin into one file x.bin for downloading
	with "xmodem -sb", making sure that the MAC is set up to expect
	MacBinary format...

	if the the file was stuffed or packed, I also have the utilities
	unpit and unsit on the Unix-box to break out the individual
	files (but I do that only when I like to store the files online,
	but separately, which is rare)

		Hope this helps,  I'll try to make the other utilities
		available in follow-up messages...

			Cheers,		---Werner

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