Re: .hqx Files

[foegelle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)]

In article <1992Nov12.191634.713@ualr.edu> hdgarner@acs.harding.edu writes:
>Does anyone know if there is a program for the IIgs that will extract '.hqx' 
>files. I am pretty sure it is some kind of Mac format, but I cannot find out 
>much more about it. Is it anything like stuffit ('.sit')? If it is I could use
>Shrinkit. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

Well, having just recently helped some friends figure out the same on their
Mac, .hqx represents BINHEX format, which appears to be a file shell similar
to MacBinary.  It is equivalent to Binary II in the apple II world being used
on Shrinkit files for the BXY format.  You'll notice that most of the .hqx 
files (at least the ones I've seen) have names like xxx.sit.hqx, so they're 
still packed by an archive utility like Stuffit or Compactor.  Binhex may
actually be an ASCII utility like Binscii for all I know.  I've never 
attempted looking at a file that I FTPed without Binhex mode on.

Michael Foegelle

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