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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
- In-Reply-To: stocker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU's message of Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:50:08 GMT
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- WS> == William Stocker <stocker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- WS> What exactly is "MacBinary" format?
-
- It's a way of encoding the Mac's file information (icon &c), data fork,
- and resource fork into one file in such a way that it can be stored on
- an "unforked" system like a BBS or ftp site.
-
- BinHex does the same thing, but also encodes the file into ASCII in such
- a way that it can be emailed.
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