Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:00:14 EDT
From: <SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Need IIgs app. to unpack Mac archives WITH resource forks

In article <1992Oct11.202208.2921@unlinfo.unl.edu>, aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A.
Berigan) says:
>
>I have a friend who has a Mac LC II who needs some help.  He needs the
>Mac equivalent of BinSCII, called BinHex.  Unfortunately, even with the
>varied Mac archive formats, I cannot seem to get a program to an
>HFS volume in a form that the Mac will recognize as other than a
>"document".  Due to problems I don't want to get into yet again, I must
>download as text files only, and I only have uuencode and compress
>available.
>
>I need a program which can extract .hqx files directly to an HFS volume,
>keeping them as Mac files (with a Mac resource fork) so they can be
>executed on the Mac.  (I am running on a IIgs with System 6 with the
>HFS.FST installed.)
>
>Yes, this message heavily focuses on the Mac platform, but I am looking
>for a IIgs application to do this, and no-one in comp.sys.mac.misc was
>able to help.  Apparently a Mac doesn't have an equivalent file to an
>EXEC file.
>

Ok, First off here is my thoughts on BinHEX.  I believe that it is possible to
get a self extracting archive of BinHex.  I'll talk to a friend who is HEAVILY
into Mac's and GS's.

Second:  I see you are coming in through a university.  My first thought is to
drop by the comp sci department of your U. and ask the ops for a copy of
BinHEX.  This is what most of the users around here do to get ahold of it.
Your campus should have a copy floating around somewhere if they have any macs
at all on campus.

Third and last:  Most of the Mac archives I've seen are Stuffit archives that
are Binhex'd.  SO:  Use GSCII+ (Found on cco.caltech.edu via anonymous FTP
in (I believe!) pub/apple2/addons/nda) to extract the archive.  GSCII is an
NDA for the GS that does BinHEX, Binscii, UUEncode/Decode, and I think one
other, although I'm not really that sure.  (I really wish I had a desktop comm
program that could do downloads/uploads to an IBM mainframe!  Then I could
check this out for you right now! :)

It should extract the stuffit archive, and since it runs on the GS/OS desktop
you SHOULD be able to save the resulting archive file directly onto an HFS
volume.  NOTE: In order to do this you will also need Stuffit or Stuffit
Deluxe for the Macintosh that you are going to unarchive this on!  Currently
(at least as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong, Andy!) ShrinkIt GS
cannot unstuff a plain archive, it must have a MacBinary header.  It also
cannot unstuff an archive made with Stuffit Deluxe!, so you really must have
these programs to do the unstuff operation.

I'm not sure if the HFS FST understands all the file types for the Mac OS, but
it should.  If it does then it should unBinhex the file into a proper file
type for Stuffit to understand.  If not there should be an option somewhere
in stuffit/Stuffit Deluxe to see All files, not just archives.

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>~~~~~~~~~~~~ aberigan@nde.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)
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