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

[George Georgalis]

macutils, converts between different Macintosh file encodings
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/compress/macutils.tar.gz

is certainly the winner for getting/compiling it. It
failed to find my lzo, but it worked on another bsd
box.

I used hexbin and now I have this file:  DL.img.sit.bin

which I could use macunpack on without error, I now
have a new, slightly (1%) smaller DL.img.sit.bin file.

back to mac, any ideas on how to open/launch that? I
have the feeling vlc is not the right application...

// George



On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:16:34PM -0500, Joseph Annino wrote:
> 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
>>
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