Subject: I need help with a binhex file

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 03:29:29 -0800

I use a PC with win95, I have a pen pal that uses a mac.  We tried to 
exchange
photos this week end and are having problems with viewing the encoded files.

could you please tell me how I de-code and view a benhex file on an ibm 
clone?

My net server is Netcom, I can use Netscape or Microsoft exchange as the 
browser, neither has helped me decode the file.

thanks for any help you can offer 

James Midgett, 
[email-masked]

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From: Robert J Wilshe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:35:38 -0600 (CST)

One quick fix is this.  The Eudora Light POP3 Mail client (freeware, I
believe) will encode/decode MIME and BinHex.  But I'd imagine that there
must be other shareware or freeware based codecs around.  A quick search
in Yahoo or Excite should turn up something.

Hope this helps!

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:03:43 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 10 Feb 1997 [email-masked] wrote:

  >exchange photos this week end and are having problems with viewing the
  >encoded files.

There are two Mac utilities called binhex and hexbin available on the
internet. Those are for LinuX, so you should be able to run them on your
system as soon as you've installed LinuX on your system (which is a good
idea, anyway, because a PC is a terrible thing to waste... >;-> ). 

I do suspect, though, that a similar util is available for Dos95, too, so
check www.yahoo.com (for example).

Viewing the files is a different matter. There's viewing software galore
again at yahoo. You might run into trouble if your friend has used some
fancy Mac format for the files, too.

Apart from that, don't you two have access to an ftp-server? Cause that's
where those files belong, actually (correct me if I'm wrong, pls).

  >browser, neither has helped me decode the file.

If at all, your mailer should be able to handle those. SM-exchange and
Netscape are no mailers, I think - or are they? ;->

Cheers,
Robin

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