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Article #25087Re: Stuffit and Binhex
From: Martin Taylor
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1988 22:40
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1988 22:40
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> I was wondering why your Binhex encode put out a bad header line something
>like:
>
>(This file can be decoded by Binhex or Stuffit)
>
>!!!!???
>
>The way you find the start of an HQX message is by looking for the line:
>
>(This file may be decoded by BinHex 4.0)
>
>(I think that is right, but check one for yourself!!!)
>
>Believe it or not, that is how most all BINHEX replacements check for the
>beginning. That line, THEN look for a colon...
>
>Phil Hunt
So THAT's why the csli-abstracts.hqx ftp'd from russell.stanford.edu could
not be decoded by xbin, but worked OK with binhex on the Mac. I thought
it was the missing newline at the end of the file.
--
Martin Taylor
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Stuffit and Binhex Message-ID: <2648@dciem.UUCP> Date: 15 Feb 88 22:40:30 GMT Article-I.D.: dciem.2648 Posted: Mon Feb 15 17:40:30 1988 References: <8802081557.AA01324@decwrl.dec.com> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 30