Decoding BinHex4.0

[Cleopatra]

I have received some files from a Mac User and I can't open them with Word.

Do you have any idea how can I read them?

Thank you.

[Beancounter]

Find another Mac user to print them out for you.

There that was easy. ;)

[Cleopatra]

My firm is old, conservative and very respectable I don't do business with Mac Users :p

Now that I am thinking of it the person who sent me the document speciliazes in Labour Law and he is a socialist....

[Darat]

Originally posted by Cleopatra
I have received some files from a Mac User and I can't open them with Word.

Do you have any idea how can I read them?

Thank you.

Stuffit!

I'm not being rude, but download the "Stuffit!" trial: http://www.stuffit.com/win/expander/index.html and it should be able to “unstuffy� the file, once you've done that you'll probably be left with a file Word can open.

[Cleopatra]

The program to decode a format that is used by Macs is called "stuffit?"

No wonder why Macs are prefered by socialists and other pariahs of the society.....


Thank you!!!!

[Soapy Sam]

Call him up. Have him resave in a format you can use.
If he wants you to read them, he should send you readable copies.

[Mercutio]

Originally posted by Darat
Stuffit!

I'm not being rude, but download the "Stuffit!" trial: http://www.stuffit.com/win/expander/index.html and it should be able to “unstuffy� the file, once you've done that you'll probably be left with a file Word can open. That "probably" is well spoken. Although Mac word-processors have been forced to be able to open virtually any PC document, there is no such economic pressure on PC word processors to acknowledge the existence of Mac documents. If unstuffing does not work, Soapy Sam's advice will--or find somebody who uses both platforms and whom you trust. I fit the first part, but am probably a bit iffy on the second....:p

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

I have Conversions Plus installed, so I can decode all the various weird crud that Mac users send me.

Why can't they just use PKzip like the rest of the world?

~~ Paul

[Cleopatra]

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Why can't they just use PKzip like the rest of the world?

~~ Paul

Because Mac Users are evil and like the cats they plot to conquer the world....

Is this Conversions Plus a microsoft patch or a windows utility? (----> I adore myself when I hear it speaking foreign languages :p )

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

It's a product from DataViz.

~~ Paul

[webfusion]

Mac users who wish to send files out there to people with PC's (read:Windows) should remember to add the dot-three naming convention to their file names when saving.
The mac OS utilizes a built-in (hidden) data fork which enables it to automatically recognize a particular type of file and the appropriate application it's associated with. So you can call your jpeg file simply "john" and that's sufficient; the mac knows to open it each time with whatever jpeg viewer program you use.

Windows requires that dot-three appendix in order to figure out what the file is.

example: john.jpg or john.doc or john.txt or john.pdf


I would never think of sending a WORD document to anyone using a PC without first re-naming with that .doc ending! That's the small price I have to pay for owning a mac in a PC-centric world.

[jimlintott]

I've sent people PDF files and had them demand that I resend in Word format. I even pointed out to one person that their own website had a link to acrobat reader as their web site featured many PDF files. They still wanted a word document.

I don't even use a word processor and loathe MS Word.

Plain text or PDF should be usable by anyone with a computer.

[Soapy Sam]

"Notepad."

PDFs are all but unreadable to my eye.