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From: jpm@sauna.cs.hut.fi (Jussi-Pekka Mantere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: joining comp.mac.binaries parts
Summary: Try "mcvert"
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Date: 21 Apr 89 13:13:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: fmodwyer@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Frank O'Dwyer, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, IRELAND)
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In article <42011@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie>, fmodwyer@csvax1
 (Frank O'Dwyer, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, IRELAND) writes:
>Is there a utility around which will join BinHexed files which have
>been split for mailing (as in comp.binaries.mac, for example)?

Try "mcvert" from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, file /info-mac/unix/mcvert.shar,
or sauna.hut.fi (128.214.3.119), file /pub/mac/unix/mcvert.shar.
No access to Internet? Ask for it by mail, and I'll send it to you.

"mcvert" will convert your "BinHex_part[1-n].hqx" files into a single
MacBinary-file, which then can be downloaded. If you have the parts in
a single file with lines such as "--- end of ...." and "From: xxx",
no problem. It can detect these and skip them and get to the "real stuff".

It will also convert the MacBinary file back to a single BinHex-4 file, if
you want to download the ascii file.

Pretty neat.

Who wrote it? From the distibution:
 * mcvert.c - version 1.01 - April 8, 1989
 * Written by Doug Moore - Cornell University - moore@cs.cornell.edu 

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