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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: x-ferring Mac files across nets with binhex & StuffIt
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Date: 30 Aug 90 14:32:07 GMT
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In article <DEMARSEE.90Aug29144901@gamera.acs.syr.EDU> demarsee@gamera.acs.syr.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) writes:
>You should Stuffit, then Binhex; transfer as text; then deBinHex 
>and deStuffit.  Do not use Binhex 5.0; it has known bugs.  Either
>use the Binhex/DeBinhexing capability of Stuffit (preferred) or
>Binhex 4.0.

Binhex 5 has known bugs?  That's a new one on me, especially since it was
widely used for quite a while on CI$ and BBSs with 8 bit connections.  It
doesn't do printable characters only, that's all.
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