fromhex for UNIX

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Subject: fromhex for UNIX
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 15:58:54 EDT
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From: Bill Croft
From: Mark H. Nodine and Bill Croft

Back in the days before macput/macget, programs were downloaded to the
Mac by saving the MacTerminal scrolloff in a file, and running a
program on the Mac called "fromhex" that converted this hex file to a binary
resource file.

People still distribute their programs in this (.dl) format
because it can be sent through the mail or ftped in ASCII mode.
Here is a version of "fromhex" for UNIX:
----
/* fromhex.c, UNIX version */

#include

int bytes,sum;

main()
{
register i,v;
register n;

n = 0;
v = 0;
while ((i = getchar()) != EOF) {
i &= 0177;
if (i == '|')
break;
if (i 0117)
continue;
v = (v neatprog.rsrc
macput -r neatprog.rsrc
This halves the amount of time it takes to download neatprog.

P.S. Thanks to so many of you who are providing programs for downloading!