Re: Replicator

[neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)]

In article <36orfs$p23@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Bill North  <north@spso.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>In article <36imt8$5kv@nuscc.nus.sg> Lim Thye Chean, ltchean@iss.nus.sg writes:
>>OK, I downloaded HyperCard IIGS, use GSc++ to undecode it, then use
>>Replicator to... wait... nothing shows up in the open file dialog!
>
>You probably have to set the filetype/auxtype.
>
   Nope. As David Empson kindly pointed out when I asked the same
question, the output of the Gscii+ decoding of the Binhex archive is a
Macintosh executable self-extracting archive. Nobody seems to know any
way to extract this except on a Mac. The sequence should be:  Unbinhex
(preferably on a Mac to keep the filetype information right), execute on
a Macintosh, then extract the resulting file with Replicator or a Mac
application which is DiskCopy knowledgable.
   To emphasize, the archives put up by Apple cannot be extracted without
the use of a Mac, or if they can, somebody is not telling the rest of us.

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