jkirsh@contact.uucp (Joel Kirsh) (05/09/91)
First of all, my thanks to all those who replied suggesting that we get mcvert to handle all those files on comp.binaries.mac. Now the problem(s) begin: mcvert runs without complaint, but the verbose output tells me that: Converting CassetteLa type = " ", author = " " it hasn't picked up the type or author information from the binhex'd file. Needless to say, when one downloads such an orphan from the 'frame to the Mac, the MacOS doesn't know what kind of file it is. Again, help/suggestions by Email appreciated. Joel
scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine) (05/10/91)
In article <1991May9.023803.3406@contact.uucp> jkirsh@contact.uucp (Joel Kirsh) writes: > > >First of all, my thanks to all those who replied suggesting that we get >mcvert to handle all those files on comp.binaries.mac. > >Now the problem(s) begin: >mcvert runs without complaint, but the verbose output tells me that: > >Converting CassetteLa type = " ", author = " " > >it hasn't picked up the type or author information from the binhex'd >file. Needless to say, when one downloads such an orphan from the >'frame to the Mac, the MacOS doesn't know what kind of file it is. > >Again, help/suggestions by Email appreciated. > >Joel There is a program called macbinfilt that does a serviceable job of compiling comp.binaries.mac segments into complete .hqx files, which I then process with mcvert. It is available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/unix directory. Unfortunately, it is not available under it's own name. It is included as a "bonus" in some other package. Even more unfortunately, I can't remember which package! Try unsit.shar and sit.shar. Might be in one of those. If those don't work, keep trying, it's in one of those .shar files. Honest! How it works is, it takes stdin or a filename (reg exp supported) and sends the converted output to stdout. I usually save my files off c.b.m as, for example, prettyc1 prettyc2 prettyc3 prettyc4, etc., then I use the following syntax: macbinfilt prettyc* > prettyc.hqx I've occasionally had it choke on a reg. expression when it didn't think I sequenced the fil sproperly. In those cases it has rapidly created monster files that consume my entire disk space allotment. I just sigh, ctrl-c, and rm. It did that with me for prettyc because I named the first file just "prettyc" instead of "prettyc1" In cases where the names aren't sequenced correctly, just list them one after the other like you would for cat: macbinfilt prettyc prettyc2 prettyc3 prettyc4 > prettyc.hqx Hope this was helpful to someone. -- scasterg@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Stuart M Castergine "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive." -- Bugs Bunny