[comp.compression] .HQX on Unix or Dos ?

csw22@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Rob Barth) (05/27/91)

Any idea how to uncompress a Macintosh .HQX file under Unix or Dos ?

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jhannah@netcom.COM (Jamal Hannah) (06/03/91)

In article <7534.9105271306@uk.ac.keele.seq1> csw22@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Rob Barth) writes:
>Any idea how to uncompress a Macintosh .HQX file under Unix or Dos ?
>
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".hqx" files are ASCII-encoded files simmilar to uuencoded ones. They have
been encoded with a program called BinHex on the Macintosh.

You can get the program to decode them from the FTP site
sumex.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] .. the file is: 'info-mac/unix/mcvert'
.. this should be BSD source code.
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