Re: [MacPerl] MacBinary

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 2:35 PM -0700 11/15/99, A K Suska wrote:
>Probably off-topic but I will risk it:  does anyone know of or are
>developing a MacBinary decoding Perl module for *nix?  I thought I caught
>wind of a MacBinary module but I am not sure if it would work on non-mac
>platforms (or at least remove the creator/type etc info so the file would be
>readable on other platforms).


When I get a chance, I'm going to add the ability to my 
Mac::Conversions module to decode MacBinary into netatalk format on a 
Unix box.  The hangup is simply finding enough time to determine 
exactly what netatalk does with the resource fork.  I see very little 
reason to do anything more than that, but you can always grab the 
module from my CPAN directory and modify it to suit your needs.  It'd 
be trivial to simply discard the resource fork.  MacBinary is a 
pretty simple format, so it isn't hard to decode.

I've never felt the need for a MacBinary decoder on Unix myself (as 
opposed to a BinHex <-> MacBinary transformer like mcvert, which I 
use occasionally).  The types of things that are commonly distributed 
in MacBinary format are usually useless on any other platform.

>
>-K
>
>"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

--
Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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