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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: BinHex4 bug?
Message-ID: <610@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 89 15:01:46 GMT
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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I recently had problems decoding Font Harmony Updater, Font & Sound Valet
Updater, and Suitcase II Updater that were recently posted to
comp.binaries.mac.  All three gave CRC errors from BinHex4.  I posted a
message to comp.sys.mac (uk only) asking if anyone had good copies.  I
heard from one person who had also found errors, and one who had not.
From the latter I obtained a fresh copy of the Suitcase II Updater binhex,
but it was identical to the one I already had.

So how did he decode it?  With the Decode BinHex feature of Stuffit.  I
tried Stuffit, and all three files decoded and unpacked successfully.

Then I tried reencoding the .SIT files with BinHex4, and decoding the
resulting files with BinHex4.  Result: each encoded successfully, and
produced a CRC error on decoding.  Looks like a bug in BinHex4.

Is this a known bug?  Is there a fix?  (Cheaper, that is, than buying
Stuffit - up to now, I've used the freeware BinHex4 and UnStuffit.)

Can anyone tell me the format of BinHex4 files, so I can take a closer look
at these errors?
--
Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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