Don't use PackitIII

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From: Bradford Needham
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1986 22:54

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Please don't post stuff in packitIII format.  The existing BinHex protocol
is sufficient for sending Mac binaries.

BinHex is free and has become the de facto standard for encoding Mac binary
files.  Packit, on the other hand, is $15 shareware and is used by only a
handful of people on the net.

The Packit use discussion appeared once before, when version II of packit
appeared on the net.  From the small number of PackitII postings since then
it seems that net folks have agreed that BinHex encoding is the only way to go.


Brad Needham
...decvax!tektronix!tekig4!bradn

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From: bradn@tekig4.UUCP (Bradford Needham)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Don't use PackitIII
Message-ID: <932@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 18:54:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 12 18:54:18 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Sep-86 04:04:53 EDT
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: packit binhex compression shareware