Re: Binhex on IIgs?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5mv2rm$geu@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
Michael Elliott <cv985@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a utiltity for the IIgs to 
>unpack Macintosh Binhex files? If so, is it on Ground, and if so, where?
>I can't seem to find it if it is.

   "I can't seem to find anything" appears to be a complaint uttered
far too often here about ground. Forward your complaints to the
admins; maybe one of these days, they'll clean up the rampant
inconsistencies in the archive, crud that's flooding the drive, and
rather than expectantly waiting for new stuff to come in (and bending
over backwards in support of those who'll upload any crap), that they
do something productive with their time like a good rearrangement of
it.

   And as to your question, the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html
section 6.2 "Net standard formats" notes that GSCII+ can unpack
that. If you must use ground, that file is in ground.isca.uiowa.edu in
the apple2/apple16/System/Ndas/GSCII2.3.1.SHK (you quite possibly go
confused by the mix of upper and lower case in names, which most ftp
programs do not ignore while displaying a file list... filenames
*should* be consistently capitalized, as I've bugged the admins about
before)

Nathan Mates
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