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- From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
- Subject: Re: Why does BinHex exist? (my mistake)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.180438.9696@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <2965@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> <C0JD83.DMz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:04:38 GMT
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- I should have made it clear that I know what binhex actually does.
- My mistake was in assuming that everyone would be able to
- have access to uuencode, which does substantially what binhex does
- (i.e. convert a binary file to 7-bit (6 for binhex but the same
- principle)) so it can be mailed/cross EBCDIC gateways/etc.). I've
- gotten kind of net-tunnel vision lately and since I download my
- files from ftp using a UNIX box, I blew off the fact that bbs's,
- compuserve, genie and other services don't neccesarily have uuencode.
-
- -Howard
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