On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 04:50, Matt Price wrote: > > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and > > > KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a > > > pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary > > > anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess -- > > > control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no > > > footnotes. > > > > > Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS > > > files?
Pardon me if this was already brought up. MacBinary is an encoding format for transferring the complete file (data + resource fork) from HFS to non-HFS capable systems. The other popular encoding is BinHex. Did you install the macutils package? It contains macunpack which will separate out the data and resource fork into two files? -- Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
