On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:39:38PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:43:23 +1030, David Purton <dcpurton@chariot.net.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:57:20PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > Is there anything I can do with a MacBinary file? It contains
> > > pictures (jpeg, I think). I googled and found mcvert, but it just
> > > converts to binhex, which is just as inscrutable!
> > >
> >
> > Nah - read the man page for mcvert. going to binhex is just the default.
> > You can get the data and resource forks as well.
>
> Actually, the default is to convert BinHex to MacBinary. I guess
> "data and resource forks" means something to a Mac user, but it means
> nothing to me. How do I just extract the pictures?
>
> I used 'mcvert -d filename' and got 'filename.bin'. In other words,
> nothing was extracted; the file was just converted from the 8-bit
> MacBinary format to the 7-bit BinHex format. I have read the mcvert
> man page, several times now, and maybe I'm just dense, but I don't see
> how it _extracts_, I only see that it _converts_ (from one
> inaccessible format to another).
>
use the -U (upload command MacBinary -> Other)
eg.
mcvert -bU somefile.bin
this will give you somefile.data and somefile.rsrc
somefile.data will contain the data - your guess is a jpg
somefile.rsrc will give the mac resource fork
cheers
dc
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