[macosx-unix] an hqx application....

[Joseph Annino]

That's a binhex file, a rather old format that encodes the resource  
fork and extended finder attributes of a file in something like a  
base64 encoding.  It hasn't really been used much since the switch to  
OS X.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binhex
The article contains some links to decoders at the bottom

Stuffit expander, the swiss army knife of mac compression and  
extraction, can also decode this:
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html

On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:06 PM, George Georgalis wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have an application which came in an hqx file, but my powerbook
> doesn't seem to have anything to open it with. I think if I get
> it extracted all will be okay, but how?
>
> // George
>
> -- 
> George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><
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