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

[Joseph Annino]

That is a macbinary encoded stuffit archive.

You will probably need stuffit expander at this point.  I am sure  
there are other options that are more free, but stuffit expander  
should be the easiest.

On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:19 PM, George Georgalis wrote:

> 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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