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From: xmjschm@hscfvax.harvard.edu (MJSchmelzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Host MacBinary program needed
Keywords: macbinary download simtel
Message-ID: <658@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 88 15:51:07 GMT
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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HELP!!!!!

Has anyone actually READ Simtel20's "information" file??
(For those who just tuned in, SIMTEL has changed its archives
 to a binary format to save space and time. I do not have any
 problem with this, by the way :-))

Anyway, it suggests (after getting the file from simtel) using
kermit in Binary Mode and download the file into the Data Fork.
Then it said to run ***BinHex 4.0*** on the file!!!
Anyone even remotely familiar with BinHex knows the difference between
4.0 and 5.0 and knows they're totally different animals.

So anyway, I decided to try 4.0 on it anyway (knowing full well it
would fail, of course :-)) and it choked as expected.
Next I said, "Okay, let's try 5.0 on it..." But found that I had
long ago discarded all copies of 5.0 as useless wastes of space.

"No problem," I thought. "I'll just get binhex5.hqx from sumex or
simtel or whatever."  Alas alack, binhex5.hcx is the only thing there
that's close. (They did have binhex5.bas but I don't have basic.)

So I decided a different tack. I got all the files dealing with
MacBinary and Unix, hoping to find something that would run
the MacBinary transfer protocol. No dice. Lots of stuff about the
hopelessly antiquated macget, macput, and that wonderful format they
use (filename.rsrc filename.data and filename.info ). But nothing
to run a MacBinary transfer on my Unix host. Not even anything to
convert something to BinHex 4.0 so I could download it.

I'm at the end of my rope.
I need one or more of the following:
1. BinHex5.hqx : some kind soul could BinHex 4 their BinHex 5 and
                 send it to me
2. tobinhex4  : (this doesn't exist as far as I know)
                A program that would take my MacBinary file and
                make a BinHex 4.0 file out of it.
3. MacBinaryPut : (again, this doesn't exist as far as I know)
                A program that would perform a MacBinary transfer
                in conjunction with, say, VersaTerm
                (Then I'd have to get VersaTerm ,but that's ok. I've
                 been meaning to anyway :-) )
4. mctrans : This would work with the Tin Can terminal emulator.
             Are there any unix versions that could handle a binary transfer?
5. Whatever I'm not understanding here.

Thanks in advance, all net people. 
("No thanks neccessary, just doing our duty. All in a day's work" :-) )

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