[comp.sys.mac.programmer] BinHex

keith@uw-apl.UUCP (Keith Kerr) (04/15/89)

I have some files that have been encoded with BinHex.  Can
someone tell me where I can get BinHex??  (Or mail it to me,
if you can in good conscience).

Please reply by E-mail

Thanks
:wq

lehotsky@osf.org (Alan Lehotsky) (08/14/89)

How does one use binhex on files downloaded?  Do you need to edit of
the "text" headers/trailers from the archive files?  Do you concatenate
the files from a multipart distribution before running binhex, or is
the program smart enough to do the right-thing...?

Is there any documentation that I can download on the care-and-feeding
of binhex?


Thanks,
Al Lehotsky

walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) (05/07/91)

I am not a Macintosh user, but in the course of seeking out PostScript
fonts, I ended up downloading (via ftp) a number of intriguing fonts.
Unfortunately, I found them to be BinHex'ed.
	I tried to apply an algorithm similar to uudecode, but this
resulted in absolutely nothing I could recognize.  Some of these fonts
are Type 1, others Type 3; I suspect that at least with Type 3 fonts I
should be able to recognize where the resource fork ends and the file
data begins.

Can anybody help me out?  Please?  A brief description of the
algorithm and Binhex format (v4.0) would be all I require; alternately
some source code).

Responses by EMAIL, please:  I don't subscribe to this group.

Gratefully Yours,

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu