Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick
From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How to send Mac files ?
Message-ID: <5346@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Jul 90 11:12:05 GMT
References: <166@asacsg.mh.nl>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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In-reply-to: kr@asacsg.mh.nl (Koos Remigius)

In article <166@asacsg.mh.nl>, kr@asacsg (Koos Remigius) writes:
>I converted MyFile with Stuffit 1.5 to MyFile.sit.
>I converted MyFile.sit with BinHex 5.0 to MyFile.sit.bin.
>Via kermit I did send MyFile.sit.bin to the unix machine.
>
>Then I looked at the layout of MyFile.sit.bin and compared it
>withe a file from <comp.binaries.mac> and found the layout of the 
>files not equal. The file from <...mac> was a neat layout, all
>the lines where of the same length, but MyFile.sit.bin was a
>complete mess.

For some strange reason, BinHex 5.0 generates binary files. Anybody
know why? BinHex 4.0 is the "standard" and generates the text form
you're after.

StuffIt 1.5 has BinHex 4.0 conversion built-in (the Options menu,
I think).

>Koos Remigius

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