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BinHexer 1.1
 

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BinHex arrives for the Newton!  Finally we can encode and decode standard BinHex files.  Don't get your hopes up, it does not support compression like .zip or .sit.  What this product will give you is the ability to get ANY binary off and on the Newton safely.  A picture or a sound or a streamed object can be BinHex'd and transferred to the desktop or Internet safely.  BinHexer works flawlessly with Tibet photos, Notepad sounds, ViewFrame, NewtonWorks.  Actually, Newton Works is required as a go-between for the new BinHex'd document.  What appears on the desktop is industry standard files such as AIFF-C sound files, AU sound files, PICT image files, PICT resources, ICON resources, NTK stream files.

As an example of how powerful a binary transfer utility this is, here are all of the Magic Pointers in NOS 2.1 turned into Stream files that can be used by NTK.  Also coutesy of BinHexer, here are 200+ pictures and icons that occur on the 2.1 ROM.  And some sounds.  And some pictures as Mac resources.  BinHexer can transfer an entire song onto your Newton like an MP3 player.  MP3 songs must be converted to AIFF or mu-Law or GSM first.

Download a 14 day trial copy here(45 kB .sit.hqx file)
and the required Translator here.

To puchase a password, check the ordering page.  The price is US$20.
 

New with version 1.1:
Fixes bug with converting mu-Law sounds.
Speeded up 10x
Overcomes operating system limitation of 311000 character strings so any sized hqx file can be handled.