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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Wow!  What format for transfer .SIT files?
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Date: 30 Nov 90 21:07:10 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
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In article <1990Nov30.131458.2599@bwdls61.bnr.ca> 
           bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt) writes:
> So to summarize,  using Stuffit, then BinHex4, will always work.  But if 
> you know you have an 8-bit transparent path on the upload and download, 
> you can dispense with either and use MacBinary format.  Hope this is 
> helpful,

Even if you have an 8-bit transparent path, you might want to use Stuffit 
just to decrease the size of the file you are transfering.  You could then 
use the MacBinary format to transfer the .sit file produced by StuffIt.

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA