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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: x-ferring Mac files across nets with binhex & StuffIt
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Date: 30 Aug 90 17:32:22 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.  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.
>

That's `cause binhex 5.0 is NOT a newer version of binhex 4.0! Try using binhex
4.0, that might solve the problem.

By the way, if you have a direct connection to your unix box from the mac, try
stuffing your files on the mac, upload them as MacBinaries, and then use mcvert
with the "-Ux" argument to binhex them. One thing after this you should check
the end of the file to make sure that there is an empty line at the end (ie.
after the last ":" in the binhex format). Mcvert seems to miss this sometimes,
especially if the last ":" happens to fit exactly at the end of the column
block.

Hope this helps!

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