Real dumb MAC question

[Doogee]

what is an hqx file? im gonna download some stuff for my old lc575 and i need to figure out what i need to get. Are the files compressed or something?

[Kintaro]

uhm yea, if your using linux...
#modprobe hfs
#mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
and makesure you get the hfs tools.

[dot.this]

A file with .hqx at the end is encoded by a somewhat obsolete method called "binhexing". The reason this is done is that when Mac files are uploaded and downloaded from the internet, they can lose important info, such as resource forks. By binhexing, the file is converted into a format that will remain intact.

The problem with binhex is that it substantially increases the file size-- about 20%. As a result, encoding with MacBinary has become much more popular. These files have .bin at the end.

Either way, to decode the file, use StuffIt Expander.

[Pissed_Macman]

its Mac, not MAC.

[Doogee]

ok well i just tried to get stuffit expander for 68000 systems and it said something like "this file cannot be opened as the program that created it could not be found" it may have been a bad download or something like that. can someone tell me where i can get a version of stuffit expander that will work on my Mac lc 575?

edit it was a *.bin file

[ January 21, 2003: Message edited by: -=-=-Doogee-=-=- ]

[psyjax]

go to www.shareware.com and download a program called BinHex 4.x it's 68k compattible and should deal with .hqx and .bin files

there are some classic mac warez sites around that may have an old version of stuffit light (expander premierd on PPC)

[Doogee]

nope nothing there.

[Doogee]

how fucking stupid, all these programmes come compressed whos fucking dickweed idea was that??

[psyjax]

http://www.pa.msu.edu/ftp/pub/mac/

http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html

OK SCORE!!!:::

http://www.angelfire.com/mac/sys6utopia/file.html

the file is a .sea self-extracting-archive

this is it. This will do it
 
I was worng about expander, there indeed was a 68k version.

BTW, the other two links are also very good.

[ January 21, 2003: Message edited by: psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax ]

[Doogee]

ok thats great but its a *.sea.hqx file??? im guesing i have to un-hqx it on my PC??

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by -=-=-Doogee-=-=-:
ok thats great but its a *.sea.hqx file??? im guesing i have to un-hqx it on my PC??

urk... I thought it was only a .sea

well, If you can un-hex it on your PC that would prolly be the best choice.

[Doogee]

lol

[Doogee]

how the hell do i do that?

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by -=-=-Doogee-=-=-:
how the hell do i do that?

DO you have an e-mail?

it's a small file.. Let me give it to you. ummm....

[email protected]

Let me know there

[Doogee]

err ok i just sent u an email