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Ken Magel writes (7 July, 1986):
   >  Sometimes when I binhex a file that has come over the net I get
a message about a crc error.  Can anyone save me a lot of time by explaining
how to do either of the following:
    1.  Fix the error.
    2.  Get the binhexed file saved anyway since it might be alright in
spite of the error.<

I have found that some files which I have downloaded from the net still have
a heading, or preliminary information, attached to them (and sometimes
that has been my own fault, when I have forgotten to delete the posting
info. etc.); this will produce the error that you describe when one tries
to binhex such files.  The answer is to check your file before binhexing,
either on your mainframe or, after downloading, with Mockwrite or such
(if the file is less than 30k) or Apple's Edit (or anything similar), and
make sure that the file begins directly with the prologue 'This file
must be converted....'. Also run through the whole file and scan it for
blank lines and remove these (they sometimes creep in when a file has been
made up from two or more parts before posting).

Anthony Bulloch