HEXBIN(L)

NAME
       hexbin - Macintosh file de-binhexer

SYNOPSIS
       hexbin [ - options ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION
       hexbin  takes  the text files specified in files (or stan-
       dard input if none is specified) and converts them subject
       to the options specified.

OPTIONS
       In  the absence of any options, hexbin takes the specified
       files and silently converts them  into  MacBinary  format,
       giving the output files ".bin" extensions and placing them
       in the current working directory.

       -3     Write files in fork format (.info, .data and  .rsrc
              files.)

       -f     As  -3,  but empty data and rsrc files are not cre-
              ated.

       -r     Write resource forks only (.rsrc files.)

       -d     Write data forks only (.data files.)

       -u     As -d, but the codes  for  CR  and  LF  are  inter-
              changed, the filename extension is .text.

       -U     As -u, but there is no filename extension.

       -a     Write  files  in AppleShare format.  This option is
              only valid if the program is compiled with  support
              for some form of AppleShare.  The current directory
              must be a valid AppleShare folder.

       -s     Write extracted files to standard output in  MacBi-
              nary format.

       -l     List   every   file  extracted  (and  every  direc-
              tory/folder created etc.)

       -v     Like -l, but more verbose.   When  this  option  is
              specified  all  lines  skipped  because they do not
              belong to the hexified format are  listed  (implies
              -l.)

       -i     Do not convert, give information only (implies -l.)

       -c     Do not check whether the hexified lines have  equal
              size.  Normally the hexifiers gives text files with
              equal length line size, hexbin  uses  this  in  its
              heuristics  to  determine  whether  a  line must be
              skipped.  There are however hexified files that  do
              not  conform  to  that  pattern.  If this option is
              specified hexbin  will  in  general  be  unable  to
              detect  whether  a  line  is garbage or not, so you
              have to remove the garbage by hand.

       -n name
              Gives the Unix base file  name  for  the  converted
              files.   For files hexified with BinHex 4.0 or com-
              patible hexifiers this flag is not  needed;  hexbin
              will  determine the Unix file name based on the Mac
              file name.  For files in dl, hex or hcx format this
              parameter  may  be  needed  as these formats do not
              include the Mac filename.  Normally hexbin will  in
              those  cases  base  the  Unix file name on the text
              file name, but that  can  be  overruled  with  this
              parameter.

       -V     Gives  the  patchlevel  of  the  program, and other
              information.  Other options  are  ignored  and  the
              program quits immediately.

       -H     Give  short  information  about the options.  Other
              options are ignored and the program  quits  immedi-
              ately.

BUGS
       As  this  is a beta release, there may still be some prob-
       lems.

SEE ALSO
       macutil(1) 

AUTHOR
       Dik   T.   Winter,   CWI,   Amsterdam,   The   Netherlands
       dik@cwi.nl

       Parts  of the code are based on codes from: ahm (?), Darin
       Adler, Jim  Budler,  Dave  Johnson,  Dan  LaLiberte,  Jeff
       Meyer, Guido van Rossum.