Subject: Re: HQX file extension. What?

From: [email-masked] (Martin Fong)
Date: 15 Oct 1994 17:37:21 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
(T. Lizotte) writes: 

>  If anyone knows what this extension is please drop me a line.

.hqx files are a 7-bit ASCII representation of Macintosh binary files;
this Apple transport format is also known as "BinHex4."  If you have
access to a Macintosh, the utilities BinHex4, StuffIt, or Compact Pro
can decode this file for you.  If you have a unix box, xbin can do
this for you.  Check out the "usual" Macintosh anonymous ftp sites
(e.g., sumex-aim.stanford.edu, mac.archive.umich.edu) for these and
other related decoders.  (BTW, you probably are after the contents in
the data fork.)

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