[SlugBug] opening mac jpeg files in linux

[Andy Davidson]

Peter Collier wrote:
> I've received 4 jpg files from an american firm who
> were doing a "shoot" at my firm. They use mac computers they tell me, 
> so, I assume these files came from a mac
> computer but I can't view them. I've looked at macutils
> package, googled around for a couple of days but can't make
> real positive sense as to what to do.
> I've tried jpeg2ps but I end up with a 0 bytes file. Opening a file with
> kate the top line of the file says, This file must be opened with
> BinHex ver 4.0. Running binhex on these files gives the message
> File is not a MacBinary. A bit of a contradiction?
> The first 3 lines are:-
>  (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)


Yuck, BinHex.

This was 'invented' to do a similar job to uuencoding a file - so that 
you could send it via email, for example.

http://www.natural-innovations.com/binhex/binhex-src.txt is some source 
that might help you unjumble it.