[Gllug] Opening MacBinary files in Linux

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Thu Jun 6 12:55:22 UTC 2002


On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:32:31PM +0100, Paul Brazier wrote:
> Not sure if this will get through (I can see posts on the web archive
> but not by email at the moment) but:
> 
> I have some files that "file" says are MacBinary Microsoft Word 6
> format.
> 
> I have looked at macunpack, mcvert & unstuff and I was able (with
> macunpack I think) to get a .data file that opened OK in AbiWord.
> But this only worked for one of the files, when I try it on the others I
> get a "Premature EOF" error.
> I'm wondering if it might be because there are pictures included with
> the document or something.

Have you tried binhex which is also in the macutil suite of tools.

It might be want you need to use.

Paul


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