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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: x-ferring Mac files across nets with binhex & StuffIt
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Date: 29 Aug 90 20:33:34 GMT
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In article <6818@milton.u.washington.edu>, majors@milton.u.washington.edu
(Robert Majors) writes:
> In what order should one binhex & Stuff to move several files across
> the Internet (also, from a Mac to a Unix box running Dynix, back to a
> Mac)?  I have been told to Stuff first, then binhex the StuffIt 
> archive.  
	That is the correct order. The reason is that first you want to 
combine and compress the files into one single 'archive' - Stuffit.  Once 
you have the single file, you then need to convert the file into a form which
can be transmitted across the internet - Binhex.

> I did this, then used the Kermit mode on the Unix box, and
> sent the archive from my Mac (using Microphone II), once as text, 
> and once as Macbinary (I wasn't sure which).  When I brought it 
> back to my Mac in the reverse order, binhex 5.0 wouldn't recognize it.
>
	When sending archives to a host, you want MacBinary turned off! What
MacBinary does it to append a 128 byte header to the file which can be used
by another Macintosh for decoding the file on the other side - since you
will not be doing this - don't use MacBinary. 
	The other problem here is that you are using Binhex 5.0, and the
version which is used for creating files for the Internet is Binhex 4.0 -
you can also use the Encode and Decode Binhex functionality in Stuffit and
that way you only need one application instead of two!

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures
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Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team