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.
Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl)
Parts of the code are based on codes from: ahm (?), Darin Adler,
Jim Budler, Dave Johnson, Dan LaLiberte, Jeff Meyer, Guido van Rossum.