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.hqx
BinHex 4.0 encoded file, a classic Mac OS format for transferring binary files over 7-bit text channels
Not yet supportedFormat facts
- MIME type
- application/mac-binhex40
- Apple UTI
- com.apple.binhex-archive
- Stock Quick Look
- shown as plain text
- Planned approach (census)
- syntax-highlight
- Icon hint
- generic-icon
- Prevalence
- rare
Renderer note (from the census)
pure Go trivial, decode BinHex to binary
Census note
Mac historians encounter BinHex; native macOS shows plain text instead of decoding the vintage format.
Gotchas: vintage Mac