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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need MacBinary XBIN
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Date: 10 Jul 88 17:55:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Jul 10 12:55:00 1988


hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu(Kurt Hirchert) writes in comp.sys.mac

>I wrote:
>>I seem to remember reading in this group not too long ago that someone had
>>modified xbin to produce a MacBinary file instead of the three file format
>>favored by MacTerminal.  Unfortunately, I don't seem to have saved anything
>>on this.  Can someone give me pointers to finding the modified xbin source?
>
>No one else seems to remember this.  I must have read it in my dreams!  Thanks
>to everyone who pointed out macbin.  It may not be as convenient as a modified
>xbin, but used in conjunction with the standard xbin it will achieve the
>desired result.  I can always use a shell script to hide most of the pain.
>
	Kurt,
		The program that you want can be found archived on Sumex-Aim as:
MACPUTC.BIN
MACGETC.BIN
	They were written by John Heuras at Think (Symantec) in order to work with 
newer programs.


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