hexbin - Macintosh file de-binhexer
hexbin [
- options ] [ files ]
hexbin takes the text files specified in
files (or standard input
if none is specified) and converts them subject to the
options
specified.
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 created.
- -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 interchanged, 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 MacBinary
format.
- -l
- List every file extracted (and every directory/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 compatible 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 immediately.
As this is a beta release, there may still be some problems.
macutil(1)
Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (
[email protected])
Parts of the code are based on codes from: ahm (?), Darin Adler, Jim Budler,
Dave Johnson, Dan LaLiberte, Jeff Meyer, Guido van Rossum.