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Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee. This is part of SF patch #494622.
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1 \section{\module{binhex} ---
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2 Encode and decode binhex4 files}
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4 \declaremodule{standard}{binhex}
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5 \modulesynopsis{Encode and decode files in binhex4 format.}
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8 This module encodes and decodes files in binhex4 format, a format
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9 allowing representation of Macintosh files in \ASCII. On the Macintosh,
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10 both forks of a file and the finder information are encoded (or
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11 decoded), on other platforms only the data fork is handled.
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13 The \module{binhex} module defines the following functions:
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15 \begin{funcdesc}{binhex}{input, output}
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16 Convert a binary file with filename \var{input} to binhex file
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17 \var{output}. The \var{output} parameter can either be a filename or a
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18 file-like object (any object supporting a \method{write()} and
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19 \method{close()} method).
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20 \end{funcdesc}
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22 \begin{funcdesc}{hexbin}{input\optional{, output}}
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23 Decode a binhex file \var{input}. \var{input} may be a filename or a
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24 file-like object supporting \method{read()} and \method{close()} methods.
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25 The resulting file is written to a file named \var{output}, unless the
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26 argument is omitted in which case the output filename is read from the
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27 binhex file.
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28 \end{funcdesc}
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31 \begin{seealso}
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32 \seemodule{binascii}{Support module containing \ASCII-to-binary
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33 and binary-to-\ASCII{} conversions.}
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34 \end{seealso}
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37 \subsection{Notes \label{binhex-notes}}
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39 There is an alternative, more powerful interface to the coder and
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40 decoder, see the source for details.
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42 If you code or decode textfiles on non-Macintosh platforms they will
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43 still use the Macintosh newline convention (carriage-return as end of
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46 As of this writing, \function{hexbin()} appears to not work in all
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47 cases.