NAME

       hexbin - Macintosh file de-binhexer

SYNOPSIS

       hexbin [ - options ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

       hexbin takes the text files specified in files (or standard input if none is specified) and converts them
       subject to the options specified.

OPTIONS

       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.

BUGS

       As this is a beta release, there may still be some problems.

SEE ALSO

       macutil(1)

AUTHOR

       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.