ITF Business07 Jul 2006 07:12 am
What a mess. Somehow I was unfortunate enough to acquire a file that had been BinHexed into .hqx format. I didn’t know what to do. Information was hard to find and not very clear. Near as I was finally able to figure, .hqx is some ridiculous Mac binary-to-ASCII conversion format. Once I finally found something that would extract it, the result was some other ridiculous compressed file.
Finally at the end of the whole mess I ended up with a Mac file completely incompatible with my Windows machine! What a colossal waste of time.
So the minute you hear anybody talking about BinHex and .hqx, run the other way. Unless it’s me of course.
3 Responses
July 7th, 2006 at 11:41 am
It’s that whole Only-One-Bite-Out-Of-The-Apple thing. Why people aren’t more suspicious of the subliminal message in their logo is beyond me. Perhaps sometime while you’re not taking out the trash you can blog us a piece on that. Thanks.
July 8th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Great idea Mark, but I don’t know. Taking out the trash isn’t bad, but between doing dishes, cooking supper, and doing the laundry I really don’t have time for much anything else!
July 13th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Actually, as a user of both the MS and Apple OS’s, I find the Mac just as easy to use, though you do need to be careful around file types as well as a few other quarks :-)