Re: 605i-network-products-installer.hqx (Is the image corrupted?)

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From: Ephraim Vishniac
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1990 20:33

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In article <9951@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
>I downloaded this file twice from the Apple ftp site, and on both tries
>the file would not go through BinHex (CRC error).  The other 6.0.5 images
>decoded without error.

>Is the 605i-network-products-installer.hqx file garbled?

There is a bug in BinHex 4.0.  If the file name exceeds a certain
length (twenty-odd characters, as I recall), BinHex will give this
error. 

To decode the file successfully, use StuffIt's Decode BinHex option.
It hasn't got this bug. 

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