BinHex is an encoding format that originated (and pretty much stayed) in the
Macintosh world, a way to convert binary files into (I think) a "printable
hex" format that could travel over the 7-bit serial/modem connections that
were still common a decade ago. For a long time (maybe still; I don't use
Macs these days) it was a standard as common as tar and zip in the Unix and
PC/Win worlds.
I don't know offhand of a unix/Linux program that will handle BinHex
conversions. Since its main use was for transmission of Mac executable
files, I don't recall the question ever coming up before. "BinHex 4.0" is a
Macintosh program (Mac filenames can include spaces) that will convert the
files back to binary format on a Macintosh.
At 08:31 PM 12/24/98 +0100, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
>
>Hi all;
>
>I was sent 3 jpg files. When I tried to look at them in xv it give me the
>error "must be converted by BinHex 4.0". Does anyone know what the heck
>this is? And what to do?
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