Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!usc!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TidBITS 5/21/90 - Issue 6
Message-ID: <41456@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 19:40:10 GMT
References: <26616182@<4164> <71100009@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Fictional Reality. We can write it for you wholesale
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gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>why must
>tidbits be encoded?  Don't most usenet news site use data compression
>in transmission, making obviating the need for binhex?

Except that Tidbits is a hypercard stack and binary data, so it can't be
transmitted without being encoded.

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