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Article #35541Re: binhex versions
From: Joel B Levin
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 14:46
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 14:46
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In article <1034@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
|In article <65097AXS101@PSUVM> AXS101@PSUVM.BITNET (Adrian Sullivan) writes:
|>ok, now every time i see someone post a file they converted with binhex, they
|>ALWAYS say to convert with version 4.0 ... well, what's wrong with 5.0? is
|>there something i dont know about 5.0 and should?
. . .
|If you use BinHex 4.0 to convert your application to a text file, it
|automatically inserts the header "This file must be converted with Binhex 4.0".
I'll bet that when that comment was put into Binhex 4.0, it was
intended as a warning not to try to convert with an OLDER version;
Binhex 5.0 probably didn't even exist then!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: binhex versions Message-ID: <33589@bbn.COM> Date: 16 Dec 88 14:46:13 GMT References: <65097AXS101@PSUVM> <1034@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 15