[6209] in SIPB bug reports
Re: BinHex conversion utilities.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Nov 1 21:23:23 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:23:12 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[779] in Release_7.7_team"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> I called the SIPB office and was referred to the program mcvert.
> UNfortunately, mcvert absolutely refuses to separate out the components
> into data, info, and rsrc fork files.
>
> I went out onto the net again and found a newer version of mcvert which
> ALSO didn't do the trick.
This isn't correct -- using mcvert is a little nonintuitive.
Basically you need to use:
mcvert -D
to conver from BinHex to Macbinary, and then
mcvert -Ub
to convert to data and resource forks. There's no such thing as an
"info" fork, that's just a kludge that some programs use to
represent the pre-fork data information.
I use it this way on a regular basis...
--jhawk
