Re: Question about BinHex 4.0

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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 06:22

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In <13766.25EDFFE1@stjhmc.fidonet.org>, Leo.Bores@f14.n114.z1.fidonet.org
(Leo Bores) seems to imply that BinHex 5.0 is in some sense a substitute
for BinHex 4.0.

It isn't.

BinHex 5.0 is a program for converting Macintosh files to and from
MacBinary format, to allow their storage on non-Macintosh file systems.
MacBinary is *not* a printable text-only format, so it is not suitable
for transmission through e-mail systems or USENET.

BinHex 4.0, on the other hand, converts Mac files to a format that,
even if it looks somewhat random, is nevertheless printable, and should
make it through mailers OK, subject only to limitations on total
message length.

BinHex 5.0 shouldn't have been called "BinHex"--MacBinary format doesn't
have anything to do with hex.

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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
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Subject: Re: Question about BinHex 4.0
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Date: 7 Mar 90 06:22:44 GMT
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