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.TH MEGATRON 1 "8 Jan 1992" "netatalk 1.2"
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megatron, unhex, unbin, unsingle, hqx2bin, single2bin, macbinary \- Macintosh file format transformer
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is used to transform files from BinHex, MacBinary, AppleSingle, or
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style AppleDouble formats into MacBinary or
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style AppleDouble formats. The
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style AppleDouble format is the file format used by
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Apple Filing Protocol (AppleShare) server. BinHex, MacBinary, and
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AppleSingle are commonly used formats for transferring Macintosh files
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between machines via email or file transfer protocols.
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uses its name to determine what type of tranformation is being asked of
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it tries to convert file(s) from BinHex, MacBinary, or AppleSingle into
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AppleDouble format. BinHex is the format most often used to send
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Macintosh files by e-mail. Usually these files have an extension of
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".hqx". MacBinary is the format most often used by terminal emulators
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"on the fly" when transferring Macintosh files in binary mode.
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MacBinary files often have an extension of ".bin". Some Macintosh
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LAN-based email packages use uuencoded AppleSingle format to "attach"
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or "enclose" files in email. AppleSingle files don't have a standard
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.B hqx2bin, single2bin,
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it will try to convert the file(s) from BinHex, AppleSingle, or
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AppleDouble into MacBinary. This last translation may be useful in
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moving Macintosh files from your
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server to some other machine when you can't copy them from the server
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using a Macintosh for some reason.
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is called with any other name, it uses the default translation, namely
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If no source file is given, or if
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and if the conversion is from a BinHex or MacBinary file,
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will read from standard input.
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The filename used to store any output file is the filename that is
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encoded in the source file. MacBinary files are created with a ".bin"
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extension. In the case of conflicts, the old file is overwritten!