.bin files

[XYU]

Does anybody know how to open a downloaded bin file? Is it archive or cd image?

Thanx.

[rugby]

.bin files are typically 1 of two things

1) a Macintosh binhex encoded file (kind of like being zipped)
2) a flash image for a router/switch that needs to be uploaded to a piece of hardware running nvram to save the image.

[Oni]

They can also be CD image files. You can use a program like CDRWin to burn them, or if you don't have it (or can't get it working, like me :mad: ) you can use a .bin to .iso converter.

[turd]

yea if your talking about the .bin cd image, you need some burning software that handles them, or something like binchunker, which does a good job of converting. one thing though you should also have a .cue file with your .bin file, they go togther, and I have often seen that the .cue which loads the .bin to your image software is mis-configured in that the person creating it links the bin by cue using his location at the time of creation like: G:\foo.binary when it(the bin) is now on your computer in C:\administrator\documents\downloads\foo.binary

so when you work with those bins just check and edit the . cue fileif needed and they should work fine