MACUTIL(1)

💖 MACUTIL(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for macutil, and it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual. it's giving "a whole lil friend group of utilities that all hang out together" ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

macutil — a package that deals with MacIntosh files on a Unix system 🍓

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so macutil is a package, right, and inside it there's a whole squad of utilities whose entire job is dealing with MacIntosh files on a Unix system. like, two different worlds, and this package is the group chat between them 💅

it contains the following programs:

• binhex — convert files to BinHex 4.0 compatible hexified form. hexify that thing, slay 💫
• frommac — receives files from the MacIntosh onto the Unix system. it's giving "incoming, bestie" 🫶
• hexbin — convert hexified files to their MacIntosh format. the reverse girlie ✨
• macsave — save a series of files from a MacBinary stream as individual files. one stream in, many files out, iconic 🎀
• macstream — combine a series of files to a MacBinary stream. many files in, one stream out, also iconic 🎀
• macunpack — unpack a MacIntosh archive into its constituents. open the bag, see what's inside 🦋
• tomac — transmits files from the Unix system to a MacIntosh. okay so this one is the outgoing one, bye bestie 👋

💀 BUGS 💀

this manual page is hopelessly incomplete! 😭

like... fr fr. no cap. it just says that. that's the whole bug section. screaming 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• binhex(1)
• frommac(1)
• hexbin(1)
• macsave(1)
• macstream(1)
• macunpack(1)
• tomac(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl) — thank you for your service, king 🫡💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution and it's dated October 22, 1992 — which is, lowkey, ancient history, but the vibes are still immaculate 🧚⭐ periodt. 💖