olePigeon
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Unless my search has failed me, I've been unable to find a workable BinHex or Binary encoder for storing Macintosh files online. I wanted to avoid proprietary formats like Stuffit.
I have, unfortunately, run into an issue:
Anyone have suggestions? Must be System 7 compatible. I may have to permanently get out my G4 just for BinHex 5.0. I have this nagging feeling that one of the versions of Stuffit came with a Binhex utility.
My ideal binary encoding app would be BinHex 5.0 with RLE compression that has Drag & Drop support, can work with special characters in names, and can truncate if the resulting file is longer than 32 characters. Preferably truncating only the name of the file, not any extensions.
I have, unfortunately, run into an issue:
- BinHex 5.0 is not drag & drop capable, and is really slow compared to MacBinary.
- DropBin does not use RLE compression, so the resulting encoded files are much, much larger. It also fails to encode anything with an Ampersand in the name.
- Stuffit always stuffs first and won't met me just BinHex something. I found an AppleScript that lets you BinHex using DropStuff, but it's not compatible with version 4.
- MacBinary II+ and III both fail to encode if the resulting file name is longer than 32 characters; it doesn't know to truncate the name, resulting in me having to change the name of the original file (which I don't want to.) I can put the original file into its own named folder, then use MacBinary. That so far has been a workaround, but it's a bit annoying.
Anyone have suggestions? Must be System 7 compatible. I may have to permanently get out my G4 just for BinHex 5.0. I have this nagging feeling that one of the versions of Stuffit came with a Binhex utility.
My ideal binary encoding app would be BinHex 5.0 with RLE compression that has Drag & Drop support, can work with special characters in names, and can truncate if the resulting file is longer than 32 characters. Preferably truncating only the name of the file, not any extensions.