🚀 go-pugleaf

<One from me for a change!>

To Chug and the rest of the net.

I also had trouble with the Boston II fonts.  After concatenating the version
for MacWrite together and running it through xbin I got a CRC error.
I then tried the older standby of downloading the .hqx file as a text file
and running Binhex4.0 on it.  It converted correctly!  As far as I could tell
the fonts were all right since I used them to reformat and print the
documentation.  They installed properly and appeared to be undamaged.

The moral is DON'T ASSUME THAT A POSTING IS BROKEN BECAUSE OF A CRC ERROR
FROM XBIN!  It may be that xbin isn't as robust as everyone assumes.  I have
had many CRC errors from xbin that could be avoided by downloading the *.hqx
file to my Mac and using Binhex4.0 there to convert it.

One last note about xbin.  It often gives a bad char message if all the
characters aren't stripped off the end of the file.  I have always ignored
that message since the files that have it have always appear to be correct.

I don't know if this problem is responsible for all the problems with the
Boston postings.  It may be that I have a bad copy of xbin (I try to keep up
with the new versions of all posting software).  It may also be that a lot of
the reposting and extra mailings that are requested are due to a buggy xbin.
It would probably be helpful to chug to check if this is the case at your
site before mailing him about any "broken postings."

<Disclaimer:  I am not the author of xbin.  I thought Boston was nice but
didn't have all the special characters I needed.  >



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