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Re: .Bin Files
>>>>> "Bill" == William Magro <wmagro@msc.cornell.edu> writes:
Bill> In my experience, BinHex files normally carry a .hqx suffix.
Bill> The .bin files I've come across have usually been MacBinary
Bill> format.
MacBinary is another name for the BinHex 5.0 format. The .hqx files
are in BinHex 4.0 format. BinHex 5.0 encodes the Mac files as a
binary archive, while the BinHex 4.0 encodes them into ASCII. Both
formats are useful for different purposes.
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Melissa Algeo
melissa@ardi.com
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