JBinHex

JBinHex is both a library and a command-line tool to decode files in the Apple Macintosh BinHex 4.0 format.

Current version: 0.5

Version history:

0.5
First released version

Limitations in this version:

  • This version does not support segmented files such as used on comp.binaries.mac.* newsgroups
  • Documentation is limited
  • Command line tool has does not check wether the command line parameters are completely correct

    • Possible future features:

    Command-line tool

    The class name of the command-line tool is org.gjt.convert.binhex.DeBinHex

    It accepts the following command line parameters:

  • Either -u <url> or -f <file> to specify the source BinHexed file. If neither of those options is present, DeBinHex reads stdin.
  • -d to decode the data fork. It will be put in the file with the name that came from the BinHex header.
  • -df <filename> to decode the data fork to the named file instead of the name that came from the BinHex header.
  • -r to decode the resource fork. It will be put in the file with the name that came from the BinHex header, with the extension ".resource" appended to it.
  • -rf <filename> to decode the resource fork to the named file instead of the name that came from the BinHex header.
  • Both -d/-df options and -r/-rf may be present at the same time. If none of these options is present, DeBinHex will decode the data fork as if the -d options was specified.
  • -h to only show the header of the BinHex file on stdout. The decoding options are ignored.

    • Javadoc

    The Javadoc of the classes is included in the distribution and available online.

    Download

    Download the complete package including source, javadoc and jarfile with classes (36 Kb).

    License

    The package is licensed under the GNU General Public License, also known as the GPL license. See file COPYING for details.

    References

    Copyright

    All files in the package and on this site Copyright 2000 by Erwin Bolwidt, <ejb@klomp.org>

    This page was last updated at april 8, 2000.