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From: matess@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Eliza Strickler)
Subject: Re: I donwloaded a .bin file from a unix machine - now what?
Message-ID: <matess.736090167@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
Organization: Georgia State University
References: <matess.735934793@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <C65pB4.A9o@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 13:29:27 GMT
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niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) writes:

>In article <matess.735934793@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> matess@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Eliza Strickler) writes:
>>I just donwloaded a *.bin file from a unix machine which is
>>supposed to be converted to a MAC format. Does anyone know 
>>what I need to do to this file to get it into any Dos, Mac
>>or Unix readable format. Someone mentioned fetch on the unix
>>machine - is this correct? Could someone explain the .bin
>>format a little?
>>

>This is almost certainly a MacBinary file which is an encoded version
>of a mac file so the Resource fork and Data fork get preserved.
>You need a program that converts this to a regular file. If this is a
>macbinary file, you may have downloaded it in Text mode and is probably
>corrupt (if you did). If you're using FTP to transfer it at any point make sure
>you type "binary" first.

>If you can open the file with a text editor and find
>(This file must be converted with Bin....
>at the top, it is a BinHex file and can be decoded with
>BinHex 4.0 (among other programs).

I opened the file with a text editor and it looks like:

^Vnetwork storyboardpictPICT8BIM^E^......

I have already tried BinHex which does not seem to work. 
Any other ideas?

>-- 
>Niko Schuessler               
>Project Vincent Systems Manager              email: niko@iastate.edu
>Iowa State University Computation Center     voice: (515) 294-1672
>Ames IA 50011                                snail: 291 Durham 
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