The Apple Macintosh stores each file in 2 parts, a resource
part and a data part. The resource part is managed by the
operating system while the data part is managed by the application.

To transfer Macintosh files via systems that use a more conventional
paradigm (i.e. the rest of the world) one can pack both parts into
McBinary or HQX format. The HQX format consists only of printable
ASCII characters similar to what uuencode produces.

Mcvert can extract both parts from such packed files and can also
pack pairs into a McBinary file.

The file mcvert.1 contains the nroff input for the UNIX man page.
The result can be found in nroff.0 for those who do not have a
working nroff.

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This version fixes a couple of "features" of the original UNIX program
in that it checks error codes. It also fixes a bug where the file
/dev/null was used instead of the Amiga-OS equivalent NIL:. This did
cause crashes where /dev/null couldn't be opened.

Michael van Elst

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                 4858   19696  24.7% -lh5- 9b1c Aug  7  1995 hqxify.c
[generic]                 2465    7478  33.0% -lh5- acd6 Dec 17  1994 mactypes.h
[generic]                13588   21692  62.6% -lh5- 627c Aug  8  1995 mcvert
[generic]                 2875    7733  37.2% -lh5- 9e27 Dec 17  1994 mcvert.0
[generic]                 2529    5991  42.2% -lh5- 3d2c Nov 16  1991 mcvert.1
[generic]                 4877   14117  34.5% -lh5- b8a3 May  8  1995 mcvert.c
[generic]                  627    1127  55.6% -lh5- 24a4 Aug  7  1995 mcvert.readme
[generic]                  177     312  56.7% -lh5- 2f63 Dec 17  1994 sup.c
[generic]                 2303    6604  34.9% -lh5- a829 Nov 16  1991 unpack.c
[generic]                  222     364  61.0% -lh5- 4c9c Aug  7  1995 scoptions
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        10 files   34521   85114  40.6%            Aug  9  1995