Re: MacBinary Stripping?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32d1b8ce.12776645@167.152.149.11>,
Edhel Iaur, Esq. <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
>I've found a program that supposedly strips MacBinary headers.  Is
>this one of said headers?:

>(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
                                   ^^^^^^
   No, it's a BinHex file. [Mac counterpart to Binscii, sorta. Use
GSCII+ NDA on a GS to undo, since 99% of all mac files have resource
forks on them, and ProDOS 8 doesn not deal gracefully with forks.]  The
file contained within may have a MacBinary header, it may not.
MacBinary is a 512-byte *binary* header (thus no real easily
identifiable bytes), so you'll just have to guess at removing it if
the file appears hard to unpack.

Nathan Mates

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