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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Why does BinHex exist?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.171257.28359@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1993Jan7.132930.4247@kth.se> <C0HoM3.5G5@news.rich.bnr.ca> <1ii16eINN4d0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan7.210159.26183@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:12:57 GMT
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- In <1993Jan7.210159.26183@netcom.com> howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey) writes:
-
- >Periodically people post asking what BinHex is, or where to get it,
- >etc... What I want to know is, Why is it really necessary? It:
-
- >system for long periods of time, in MacBinary II, with no ill effects.
- >This has proven true on various Suns, 2 RS-6000's, and 2 HP-9000's.
- >It may be that some machines will damage mac files if they aren't
- >binhexed, and thus it would be neccecary in that case. It just
- >occured to me that it may be neccary for uucp or bulkmail, but I'm not
- >sure. Can someone enlighten me on this subject? I know I'm missing
- >something.
-
- Yes, it's necessary for some BBSes, mailers or networks that only
- support 7-bit characters, and/or don't like control characters.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
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- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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