Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!runx!clubmac From: clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Help with StuffIt header problems. Message-ID: <1638@runx.ips.oz> Date: 5 Jul 88 14:44:35 GMT References: <358@pedro.UUCP> <6805@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: clubmac@runx.OZ (Australia's Largest Mac Users Group) Organization: Club Mac. Sydney, Australia. Lines: 38 In article <6805@cup.portal.com> David_Alan_Newman@cup.portal.com writes: >Pete Ashdown seems to have hit the cause of the problem on the nose. The >Amiga comm program will not recongize a MacBinary header, so saves the >MacBinary file image to disk as is. The file remains a MacBinary image >once it reaches his Mac. The link from DOS to Mac obviously does not >recongize MacBinary formatted files either. > >So, what Pete needs is a utility called BinHex 4.0, but not 5.0. What >BinHex 4.0 does is convert Mac files from MacBinary format to their >original format, and vice versa. > >Dave Newman Arrgh! I'm sorry Dave, but I'm afraid you can't do that! :-) This is the umpteenth time I have seen a message telling the world that BinHex 5.0 DOES NOT convert MacBinary format files back to their original state, as a normal Mac application/document. You're assertion is wrong. BinHex 5.0 is the utility you need to do the conversion. NOT BINHEX 4.0! You use 4.0 to convert the stuff that regularly appears in comp.binaries.mac and a few other places. If you're reading this Pete, remember to use BinHex 5.0. That is, if your terminal program doesn't support MacBinary. If it doesn't, it's not worth using. Red Ryder, MacTerminal, MicroPhone, Versaterm are just a few that will recognize the MacBinary format files that you wish to download from the Amiga. Jason Haines, President Club Mac - Australia's Largest Macintosh Users Group Phone Home: +61-2-73-1016 OZ Post: Box 213, Holme Building, Sydney University, NSW, 2006, Australia Internet: clubmac@runx.ips.oz.au UUCP: uunet!runx.ips.oz.au!clubmac