Re: [Sheflug] Read mackintosh jpg file under linux

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 December 2005 09:04, Bob Holland wrote:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 23:44, Peter Collier wrote:
> > BinHex still says not a MacBinary, yet first
> > line says file must be converted with BinHex?
>
> Peter,
>
> I have a colleague with a Mac who sends me stuff with similar
> problems. I made the following notes which you might find helpful...
>
> <snip>
> He sends his emails with BinHex 4.0 encoding for attachments. These
> may or may not have a .hqx extension.
>
> The megatron set of commands must be used to deal with these.
>
> To decode one of his attachments, save the file to disk. If it hasn't
> got a .hqx extension then give it one.
>
> Then use...
>
> unhex <filename>
>
> This will do the decode and save the file under the original name
> without the .hqx extension.
>
Bob,
	The files are named IMGP5472.jpg,  IMGP5478.jpg etc. I'm using suse 
10.0, can't find unhex in the distribution. So I google and find that 
unhex is part of megatron (as you mentioned) References to megatron 
abound under a google search but every reference that I've looked at, 
refer to people giving other people asking the same question as I, the 
answer you gave me. Man pages and the like are in plenty but I can't 
find a download link for the file. Searching for megatron on the 
novel/suse site, takes me to a host of references on netatalk. This 
won't do what I want unless I've interpretered the pages wrong. 
n.b. netatalk is available on my distribution.
My next task is to troll through the older dists. versions, 9.3 down, to 
see if megatron was included in them.
Peter C
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