roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (02/21/90)
A big piece of software gets posted to comp.binaries.mac. What do
you have to do to use it? First, save all the pieces. Then copy them to
your Mac (I use ftp). Then put the pieces back together (United). Then
unbinhex them (StuffIt). Then extract the StuffIt archive (a different
StuffIt operation). Then get rid off all the intermediate files (drag them
into the trash).
What I'm looking for is one program which will do the last few
steps all at once. You give it the basename of a group of files, it finds
all the files called basename.[1234...], combines them, unbinhexes them,
extracts everything from the resulting StuffIt archive, and discards all
the intermediate files. Does such a thing exist?
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"My karma ran over my dogma"svc@well.sf.ca.us (Leonard Rosenthol) (02/24/90)
In article <1990Feb21.153256.19177@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > > What I'm looking for is one program which will do the last few >steps all at once. You give it the basename of a group of files, it finds >all the files called basename.[1234...], combines them, unbinhexes them, >extracts everything from the resulting StuffIt archive, and discards all >the intermediate files. Does such a thing exist? > Stuffit Deluxe, due soon from Aladdin Systems inc., will offer almost all of the functionality you wish. It will unbinhex, unStuff and delete files for you, and with the new scripting language you can make the processe quite automagic. What I do is to run a script called 'Do New' which unbinhexes and then unstuffs (into new folders) all of the files that I just downloaded which end in .hqx. Also since Deluxe is fully MF compat, this happens in the background while I go back to writing code. Disclaimer: I am obviously a beta testers for Deluxe as well as being good friends with all of the involved parties so I guess that makes me biased ;-) -- +--------------------------------------------------+ Leonard Rosenthol | GEnie : MACgician Lazerware, inc. | MacNet: MACgician UUCP: svc@well.UUCP | ALink : D0025
wiseman@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) (02/24/90)
In article <1990Feb21.153256.19177@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > > A big piece of software gets posted to comp.binaries.mac. What do >you have to do to use it? First, save all the pieces. Then copy them to This is not exactly what youasked for but if you are collecting your multi piece file from the net on a unix machine (eg. file.p1, file.p2, file.p3), what you can do is get a copy of mcvert. Mcvert will take the pieces, combine them and convert them into macbinary in one shot. (eg. mcvert file.p*). This not only combines the pieces and strips out the news headers, etc. but also creates the macbinary version which is much smaller than the binhex ones combined resulting in a much faster download time. When you download, most mac terminal type programs will let you download the macbinary directly resulting immediatly in a file all set to use, unless of course it's a stuffit file but then you just run stuffit on it. Hope this helps! -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM