Short: McBinary and HQX translator update Author: Doug Moore, adapted for AmigaOS by Michael van Elst Uploader: mlelstv serpens rhein de Type: util/conv Architecture: m68k-amigaos The Apple Macintosh stores each file in 2 parts, a resource part and a data part. The resource part is managed by the operating system while the data part is managed by the application. To transfer Macintosh files via systems that use a more conventional paradigm (i.e. the rest of the world) one can pack both parts into McBinary or HQX format. The HQX format consists only of printable ASCII characters similar to what uuencode produces. Mcvert can extract both parts from such packed files and can also pack pairs into a McBinary file. The file mcvert.1 contains the nroff input for the UNIX man page. The result can be found in nroff.0 for those who do not have a working nroff. - This version fixes a couple of "features" of the original UNIX program in that it checks error codes. It also fixes a bug where the file /dev/null was used instead of the Amiga-OS equivalent NIL:. This did cause crashes where /dev/null couldn't be opened. Michael van Elst