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Re: BinHex decoder on a GS?



David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

:> : Are there any programs on the IIGS that can decode Mac BinHex files?  They
:> : appear to be like Binscii files on the Apple II family.  Also, is there a
:> : program that could convert a PostScript file into a file viewable on a GS?

:> Postscript is just text put into a file to download to a PS device so if
:> you set the file type right, anything that can display text should work to
:> view it.

: Sure, view the raw Postscript, but you would have a great deal of
: difficulty identifying what the output on a Postscript printer would
: look like.

Well in order to do that, what you'd want would be a PS interpreter type
thing, or you might call it a PS output viewer. But to view PS like was
implied in the original article, it only takes a text editor.
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