re i donwloaded a bin file from a unix machine now what niko iastate edu nikolaus e schuessler writes in article matess gsusgi gsu edu matess gsusgi gsu edu eliza strickler writes i just donwloaded a bin file from a unix machine which is supposed to be converted to a mac format does anyone know what i need to do to this file to get it into any dos mac or unix readable format someone mentioned fetch on the unix machine is this correct could someone explain the bin format a little this is almost certainly a macbinary file which is an encoded version of a mac file so the resource fork and data fork get preserved you need a program that converts this to a regular file if this is a macbinary file you may have downloaded it in text mode and is probably corrupt if you did if you re using ftp to transfer it at any point make sure you type binary first if you can open the file with a text editor and find this file must be converted with bin at the top it is a binhex file and can be decoded with binhex among other programs i opened the file with a text editor and it looks like vnetwork storyboardpictpict bim e i have already tried binhex which does not seem to work any other ideas niko schuessler project vincent systems manager email niko iastate edu iowa state university computation center voice ames ia snail durham elizabeth strickler matess gsusgi gsu edu
