Subject: BinHex4 (Help!)

From: Pete Ross <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 17:37:37 -0800

My Web Master sent me an executive file that I need to put my Home page
into the server. But when I tried to run it from HotDog, the top of the
file read: "You need BinHex40 to convert this file."  I have been all 
over the Internet trying to find this file, for my IBM Pentium, but have 
been unable to find it.  Can you help me?  I really need this file.

                                                          Sincerely;
                                                             Pete Ross

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:31:18 -0800

> been unable to find it.  Can you help me?  I really need this file.

BinHex 4.0 is a macintosh program. It is very old, and its function is 
duplicated in most expander utilities. You should either find a mac and 
use a program like Stuffit or Stuffit Expander to decond/uncompress the 
file and then write it onto a DOS disk, or try to find a version of 
Stuffit for the PC, which I think is now available. A binhexed file has 
".hqx" tacked onto the end of the name. Perhaps you have already dealt 
with such files?

				Ian Ollmann