Re: Attached files

Hans Nelisse (hneel@xs4all.nl)
Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:30:31 +0200

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On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:22:09 +0200, you wrote:
>steved@mozart.inet.co.th (Steve Dickerson) wrote:
>> The first line said it was to be converted with BinHex4.0. A quick
>
>BinHex is somewhat similar to UUencode, but for the Mac. There are
>decoders for it available for DOS and OS/2. The OS/2 decoders can
>be found from ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/decode/, and I believe that
>the alt.binaries.pictures.utilities archive at
>http://spodbox.ehche.ac.uk/~abpu/ also lists BinHex decoders for DOS.
>
>Save it to a file ("w" in the message viewing window) and then run
>the decoder on the file.

It will not work that way. Binhex is not as friendly as for example uudecode.
It is important to cut ANYTHING from the file that isn't part of the encoded
body. Any MIME headers, any text, any blank lines, etc. Otherwise Binhex
will re-encode it instead of decode it. :-(

Hans Nelisse hneel@xs4all.nl
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