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diff --git a/Doc/libbinhex.tex b/Doc/libbinhex.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 6a7d3c6..0000000 --- a/Doc/libbinhex.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -\section{Standard Module \module{binhex}} -\label{module-binhex} -\stmodindex{binhex} - -This module encodes and decodes files in binhex4 format, a format -allowing representation of Macintosh files in \ASCII{}. On the Macintosh, -both forks of a file and the finder information are encoded (or -decoded), on other platforms only the data fork is handled. - -The \module{binhex} module defines the following functions: - -\begin{funcdesc}{binhex}{input, output} -Convert a binary file with filename \var{input} to binhex file -\var{output}. The \var{output} parameter can either be a filename or a -file-like object (any object supporting a \var{write} and \var{close} -method). -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{funcdesc}{hexbin}{input\optional{, output}} -Decode a binhex file \var{input}. \var{input} may be a filename or a -file-like object supporting \var{read} and \var{close} methods. -The resulting file is written to a file named \var{output}, unless the -argument is empty in which case the output filename is read from the -binhex file. -\end{funcdesc} - -\subsection{Notes} -There is an alternative, more powerful interface to the coder and -decoder, see the source for details. - -If you code or decode textfiles on non-Macintosh platforms they will -still use the Macintosh newline convention (carriage-return as end of -line). - -As of this writing, \function{hexbin()} appears to not work in all -cases. |