Re: OFFICIAL:HyperCard IIgs on ftp sites

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <357d01$11s@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
> In article <356bl9$4p2@nuscc.nus.sg>,
> Lim Thye Chean <ltchean@iss.nus.sg> wrote:
> >
> >Why all the files are in binhex format? How do I use it without a Mac?
> 
>    There's a unix program, 'mcvert', that can un-binhex files. I just
> have a compiled binary for sun4m that I copied from somewhere, but you
> shoule be able to archie for it, and compile it for yourself.

GSCII+ and SSCII can both extract data from BinHex'ed files.

That is only part of the problem, though.  The HyperCard IIgs files on
ftp.support.apple.com are DiskCopy disk images, inside a Macintosh
self-extracting archive, encoded with BinHex.

There is no way you can extract the self-extracting archive without a Mac.

The DiskCopy disk image could be dealt with on the IIgs (there is a
freeware DiskCopy extractor, and GS+ magazine's "Replicator" program
can also read them).
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David Empson
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