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From: lef@raybed2.UUCP (LEE FYOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FTP'ing large files...
Keywords: mcvert
Message-ID: <1461@raybed2.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 17:22:30 GMT
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass.
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Someone sent me an archive with the source (and man page) for
the unix utility "mcvert".  It takes any number of binhexed files,
cat's them together, stripping out header and trailer lines,
and de-binhex's the result.  So if you have the files
solarian-ii-part1.hqx, ..part2.hqx, etc. you just say
mcvert solarian*hqx
and it spits out solarian-ii-sit.bin or something along those
lines.  It is pretty good with error handling, and does not
remove the .hqx files.  What you end up with is a binary in the
MacBinary format, which is much smaller than the ASCII .hqx files.

I don't know if it's on sumex, though...

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Lee Fyock                             Raytheon, MSD
lef@raybed6.RAY.COM                   Advanced Systems Section
         "The software we write never completes.
          It runs until the chip vaporizes."