1 .TH MEGATRON 1 "8 Jan 1992" "netatalk 1.2"
3 megatron, unhex, unbin, unsingle, hqx2bin, single2bin, macbinary \- Macintosh file format transformer
41 is used to transform files from BinHex, MacBinary, AppleSingle, or
43 style AppleDouble formats into MacBinary or
45 style AppleDouble formats. The
47 style AppleDouble format is the file format used by
51 Apple Filing Protocol (AppleShare) server. BinHex, MacBinary, and
52 AppleSingle are commonly used formats for transferring Macintosh files
53 between machines via email or file transfer protocols.
55 uses its name to determine what type of tranformation is being asked of
64 it tries to convert file(s) from BinHex, MacBinary, or AppleSingle into
65 AppleDouble format. BinHex is the format most often used to send
66 Macintosh files by e-mail. Usually these files have an extension of
67 ".hqx". MacBinary is the format most often used by terminal emulators
68 "on the fly" when transferring Macintosh files in binary mode.
69 MacBinary files often have an extension of ".bin". Some Macintosh
70 LAN-based email packages use uuencoded AppleSingle format to "attach"
71 or "enclose" files in email. AppleSingle files don't have a standard
77 .B hqx2bin, single2bin,
80 it will try to convert the file(s) from BinHex, AppleSingle, or
81 AppleDouble into MacBinary. This last translation may be useful in
82 moving Macintosh files from your
84 server to some other machine when you can't copy them from the server
85 using a Macintosh for some reason.
89 is called with any other name, it uses the default translation, namely
92 If no source file is given, or if
96 and if the conversion is from a BinHex or MacBinary file,
98 will read from standard input.
100 The filename used to store any output file is the filename that is
101 encoded in the source file. MacBinary files are created with a ".bin"
102 extension. In the case of conflicts, the old file is overwritten!