NOTE:  Almost all files (even binaries) in the Info-Mac archive are in text
format. Hence, a FTP transfer using a text-only option should work in all
common cases.

To access binaries in the Info-Mac archive at sumex-aim, use your
machine's ftp program.  Type "ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu".  Use the
account name "anonymous" (lower-case) and enter any password. Then
"cd info-mac" to enter our directory. You should be able to transfer
binaries with a statement like "get tn/tn000.hqx".

Here are some simple commands to move you around the directory structure.
This example assumes that you started in the /info-mac directory.
	cd app         # move into the app directory
	ls             # list the files there
        get planet.hqx # transfer a file to your computer
        cd ..          # move back up to the parent directory
        cd help        # and so on...

Most Info-Mac files are stored in BinHex 4.0 format.  We have adopted the
common practice of labeling such files with .hqx extensions.  To take these
files and use them on your Macintosh, you must first run them through
a program which will convert them from .hqx format into a regular Macintosh
file. On Unix systems, you can use the mcvert program, stored as
/unix/mcvert.shar. You can also do the conversion on your Macintosh by using
either BinHex 4.0 or StuffIt 1.5.1. We recommend using StuffIt because it is
slightly more reliable than BinHex.

Note that some of our files are large and have been split into smaller pieces
so that they can be more easily mailed.  You must join them together before
running BinHex or StuffIt. Hqx files can be edited as normal text; therefore,
you can use any word processor or append command on your host to stich the
pieces together. There are some files in the /util directory to do this step
for you (unity and united).

Most of our files also have been compressed to save space. You'll know that
they have been when the file name after converting to Macintosh format ends
with a .sit, .cpt, .sea, or .pit extension. You should use StuffIt 1.5.1
to convert .sit and .pit compressed files into real Macintosh files. (With
.pit files you need to set a special StuffIt option to decompress them since
they are not in the usual StuffIt format.) The other types, .cpt and .sea,
are becoming increasingly common as Compactor gains in popularity. Both
Compactor and Stuffit are in the /util directory.

In summary, there are generally five steps to pulling .hqx files from our
archives:
	1. Transfer them to your computer with FTP.
	2. Transfer them to your Macintosh somehow.
        3. If necessary, put separate pieces together.
	4. Run BinHex 4.0 or StuffIt to convert the .hqx files into either
           real Macintosh files or compressed Macintosh files.
	5. If they are compressed, use the appropriate decompression
           program to decompress them.
People using Unix may be able to skip steps 3 and 4 by using the program
mcvert on their Unix system before transferring the program to their Macintosh.

If you don't already have BinHex 4.0, it would be easiest to get it from a
friend or user group. The truly desperate can compile it from the Pascal
text sources currently stored in the source directory. Or, if you know how
to do an 8-bit binary download, you can FTP it from us as /util/binhex4.bin.