Re: converting Mac documents

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From: Kath Adams (KathAdams_at_mvps(nospam).org)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:52:13 +0100

<quote>
Unlike Windows downloads, which must be decompressed, Macintosh
downloads must be decompressed and decoded before they can be used.
Fortunately, Stuffit Expander combines both these steps.

Macintosh downloadable files are encoded using either the BinHex or
Macbinary format. BinHex files have the extension .hqx, and Macbinary
files have the extension .bin. Stuffit Expander can decode both kinds of
files.
</quote>

Ask your son to save his documents as .txt files (ascii), which can be
read by any kind of word processing application. 

-- 
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
Judith wrote:
>  It looks like the only file name is   .bin
>
>
> "Harry Ohrn" wrote:
>
>> What is the file extension for these documents - you know the last
>> three letters that appear after the "." in the file's name.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
>> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>>
>>
>> "Judith" <Judith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AD4829A4-1E6B-4880-AA63-F23ADCD34EC7@microsoft.com...
>>> I have new hewlett packard (Dec. 2003) XP desktop.  I don't know if
>>> this is a HP or XP problem.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to convert documents made on a MAC computer and open
>>> in my
>> computer?  I've tried to "open with" in a variety of types.  Also
>> tried to follow thru on the option to go to web for inf. to open
>> file, but page directed to can never be found.
>>>
>>> I am trying to open a load of documents from files my son has
>>> created at his worksite office.
>>>
>>> Appreciate suggestions
>>> --
>>> none

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