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Re: Stuffit 1.31 and binhex

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From: Kees Huyser
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1988 13:24
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In article <2794@dasys1.UUCP> raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau) writes:
#I'd love to put that in...!  According to the .Hqx format notes which I have,
#encoding and decoding starts at the first colon.  But alas, msg. headers have
#colons in them.
#
#So, anyone care to enlighten me as to a technique of skipping over msg.
#headers?  I've drawn a blank with this one..
#
#--
#Raymond Lau                       GEnie: RayLau

Raymond,
You could have StuffIt look for the first colon after the line that
starts with :

(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)

:THISISABINHEXEDFILEWITHALLSORTSOFUNREADABLESTUFF....

This way you are always sure you start at the beginning of the .hqx 
file.

-- Kees
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From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit 1.31 and binhex
Message-ID: <305@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 13:24:20 GMT
References: <10319@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> <2689@dasys1.UUCP> <763@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <2794@dasys1.UUCP>
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Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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