To decode a MacBinary document in Mac OS, Mac OS X, or Windows, use StuffIt Expander. Simply drag and drop the file onto the StuffIt Expander icon and it will decode the file. When necessary, it will also decompress the file into a usable form. Macpup is a minimalist desktop Linux distribution based on Puppy Linux. It uses Enlightenment as the default window manager and provides a user interface resembling that of Apple's Mac OS X.

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Although it is occasionally used to represent other formats, a.bin extension indicates that the file has most likelybeen encoded in MacBinary, a file encoding protocol commonto Mac OS, and to a lesser extent, Mac OS X. Thefile is probably an archive, application, or other binaryfile encoded to protect the Mac's forked filestructure. To decode a MacBinary document in Mac OS, Mac OS X,or Windows, use StuffIt Expander. Simply drag and drop thefile onto the StuffIt Expander icon and it will decode thefile. When necessary, it will also decompress the file into a usableform. If dragging and dropping doesn't work, double-click theStuffIt Expander icon and, from the File menu,select Expand. In the Open dialog box thatappears, choose the file you wish to convert.

Most dedicated FTP and SFTP programs (e.g.,Transmit and Fetch) can also decode MacBinaryfiles, and so can some mail clients. Other programs, such asInternet Explorer, will automatically decode any file withthe .bin extension as long as StuffIt Expander isinstalled.

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StuffIt Expander is available from Smith Micro. TheMac version is included with later versions of Mac OS and early versionsof Mac OS X (up through OS X 10.3.x).

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Note: To correctly decode MacBinary III files, youmust have StuffIt Expander 5.0 or higher. Older versions will work tosome extent, but won't extract icon badges and routing information,which are Finder features introduced in Mac OS 8.5.