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Re: binhex/compact probs?



maren@astron.mit.edu (Maren Leyla Cooke) writes:
> i opened Word (which you can do either by clicking on
> another Word file  or on the app itself), and used
> file/open (in the menu) to open the  forkless file.  A new
> resource fork must be magically created at this  point,
> because the file came up as happily as anything, formats
> 'n' a'. 

> 

Both Word and Excell files can be opened without one of those
%blah files associated. In fact, on my NeXT, I standardly use
Opener to de-binhex Eudora mail, ad the .msw or .xl to the
file name (there's a panel that tells who who created the file
so you know what it is), then just double click on it and let
Executor take it from there.

I recall it works just fine the other way, too; binhex just the
main file (ignore the %thing) then paste it into a mail window
and send it. {I always edit the line endings of the first "(This
file must be..." line to be two newlines instead of the CRLF or
whatever binhex puts there; don't know if I have to, though}.

tec