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Article #5819Re: Packit + BinhHex; All in one; Is that possible?
From: Jim Budler
Date: Sat, 24 May 1986 19:14
Date: Sat, 24 May 1986 19:14
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In article <1283@princeton.UUCP> zabetia@princeton.UUCP (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
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>Why doesn't the author of packit include a binhexing procedure in his program
>so only one application would be needed to send files? Is that possible or am
>I missing something??
What you are missing is the fact that outside of Usenet, the BinHex 4
encoding mechanism is obsolete, and unused. All the newer terminal emulators
including MacTerminal 2.0, Red Ryder, Freeterm have a built in encoding
scheme called MacBinary. So encoding is not required in the packing program.
The reason it is not used on Usenet is that it is a full 8-bit binary
encoding scheme, where BinHex 4 is a binary to ascii encoding scheme.
Only ASCII is guarenteed for Usenet mail paths, thus Usenet, the frontier,
for once remains behind the rest of the world.
--
Jim Budler
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(408) 749-5806
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