Re: Help with hqx ???

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From: Sean McMains
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:37

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In article <BxnF6z.Bsq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Crying Freeman,
cw21219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Can someone tell me what the hqx extension means?
>Thanks.

It simply means that the binary data has been converted into a text
format by a program such as BinHex. Most of the major compression
software packages can decode BinHexed files. The format is useful to make
sure both the resource and data forks in a file survive a trip through
Unixland.
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