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In article <150820020519341901%richardb@sailmaker.co.uk>,
 Richard Buckle <richardb@sailmaker.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <mwron-B9FE2C.11395112082002@enews.newsguy.com>, MW Ron
> <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote:
> 
> > >Hey Ron, do you have any idea why the archive requests submissions in
> > >.sit.hqx form?
> > ....
> > 
> > They want them in TEXT based probably for portability reasons and no 
> > resource forks.  I think however it is just a request.
> 
> A .sit file is plain binary, with no resource forks. Simply tell users
> to upload a their .sit as plain binary and everyone will be happy.
> 
> hqx re-encodes a file in a 7-bit format. It's a hangover from the days
> before the net was 8-bit clean -- my advice is to forget it. These
> days, it just bloats files for no good reason.
> 
> You wouldn't ask anyone to uuencode a .gz or .zip file, would you? It's
> the same argument.

Actually, who the hell cares? It's an archive. The only thing that I 
care about is that I can download it with my browser, and an appropriate 
helper launches to extract it. It could be transliterated by a trained 
monkey for all I care.

meeroh