werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (10/27/88)
hexed sources that arrive here in multi-part section get processed
with the following sed-script (should work on your Unix-box):
#
# usage: combhex <files>
#
# Note: file "combhex.rc" contains the following line (minus the "#")
# followed by a blank line:
#(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
#
cat /usr/local/lib/combhex.rc $* |\
sed -n -e 1,2p -e '/ /d' -e '/ /d' -e '/^---$/d' -e '/./p' > $1.hqx
simple save all the parts into one file, or call combhex with the
list of file-names (in the correct order) of the parts, and combhex
will (most of the time) strip all the "noise" so that you can use
xbin next. (Often the first-part message contains some basic docs
which you should extract into a separate file as the information will
not be preserved in the following process).
an output file is created named <something>.hqx (let's say a.hqx)
this can be downloaded either with xmodem, kermit, macput -u, and
processed with BinHex or StuffIt on the Mar, or:
it gets processed on the Unix-box with xbin, which converts it into
3 forks familiar as the normal MAC-file-format.
these MAC-files can be downloaded with "macput" setting the Mac up
to expect MacXmodem format, or:
I combine the 3 forks with macbin into one file x.bin for downloading
with "xmodem -sb", making sure that the MAC is set up to expect
MacBinary format...
if the the file was stuffed or packed, I also have the utilities
unpit and unsit on the Unix-box to break out the individual
files (but I do that only when I like to store the files online,
but separately, which is rare)
Hope this helps, I'll try to make the other utilities
available in follow-up messages...
Cheers, ---Werner
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