[EUG-LUG:1901] Re: Macs and Linux

[Randolph Fritz]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:09:59PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> I've got some Mac friends who send attachments sometimes, and often I
> can't open them b/c they are in 'Mac binhex format'.  Does Linux have
> a utility to convert this format to something usable?

mcvert will unpack these.  The appropriate options depend on the kind
of file; in general -b will work, splitting the Mac metadata off into
a .rsrc (resource) file and and the file data proper into a .data
file.

Randolph