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From: jwwalker@usceast.UUCP (Jim Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TidBITS 5/21/90 - Issue 6
Message-ID: <3267@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 20:38:54 GMT
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Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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In article <71100009@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I sure wish this tidbits stuff wasn't encoded in binhex. ...-- why must
>tidbits be encoded?  Don't most usenet news site use data compression
...

Binhex encoding is not for data compression, but to allow binary (non-text)
files to be mailed.  In the case of Tidbits, it's a Hypercard stack.  You
could argue that a Hypercard stack is overkill for reading text, though.


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   Jim Walker  jwwalker@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu  76367.2271@compuserve.com