Urgent help needed

[Filbert]

My friend has sent me an important attachment by e-mail that I need to print off tonight.
The problem is that she has a mac and I use a pc so the attachment reads
This file must be converted with BinHex 4.
Anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks in advance
PS I'm not very technology minded so the more basic the better

[strugglin']

Just a shot in the dark. But can you save the file as a plain text file?

[Filbert]

I don't get an option when I download the attachment, only to save it in a folder. The piece comes out as a bit of gobbldygook

[kempie]

http://www.mug.jhmi.edu/mirrors/infoalley/binh ex.html

[fo3nix]

What sort of file is it? It'll make no difference whether it's from a mac or windows pc.

It should say the filename like file.txt or similar...

[kempie]

BinHex is a method of encoding a file for electronic transmission, such as by e-mail. PC based file transmission usually employs other methods of encoding such as UUencode or MIME (or perhaps even YEnc).

Whereas it is not uncommon for Mac files to be BinHex-ed (and given an .hqx ending), PCs do not usually run e-mail clients which can automatically decode these files and an application must be installed to do so. The article in the above link directs you to where such applications are available for download.