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From: sobiloff@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Using BinHex to un-Binhex files downloaded from comp.binaries.mac
Keywords: BinHex, un-BinHexing
Message-ID: <1752@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 89 20:19:38 GMT
References: <2422@cit5.cit.oz>
Reply-To: sobiloff@thor.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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In article <2422@cit5.cit.oz> prf@cit5.cit.oz (Paul Freeman) writes:
>Could someone please indicate how to convert BinHex files back to their 
>original un-BinHexed form.  I have downloaded from comp.binaries.mac
> [...]
>1.	Remove characters from the beginning of the file upto but
>	not including :
>2.	Remove any text at the end of the file, such as --end of part one-
>	but leave : at the end of the last part of the file
>3.	Where a program consists of more than one part, combine these.
>4.	Use BinHex 4.0, Upload-->application, TEXT filter on
>5.	Use Fedit to change the file type to INIT, APPL or whatever is
>	appropriate.

I can see two areas where your problems might be occurring: 1) When you
combine the multipart downloads, make sure that there are no breaks in the
file, i.e. that all the lines remain the same length and there are no blank
lines.  The only line that may be shorter than normal is the very last one.
2) Choose *DOWNLOAD*--> Application.  I don't know if that was a typo, but
you need to choose the download-->Application option to convert from BinHex
to normal.  You shouldn't have to use Fedit to change file types- I think this
is related to the problems above.


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