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Subject: Re: New StuffIt translator modules
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Date: 17 Jan 91 20:06:50 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.171813.19497@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, marder@rata.vuw.ac.nz 
(Stephen Marder) writes...
>   Reference was recently made in Info-Mac Digest to three new translator
>modules for StuffIt Classic and StuffIt Deluxe: btoa/atob; DD expand; and
>MacBinary (encode/decode). These are welcome additions; however, it would
>appear that the MacBinary module is unable to do one thing: join and
>decode hqx files in several parts. To do this quickly and efficiently the
>DA BinHqx 1.02 should be used. Can anyone confirm this?

MacBinary == BinHex 5.0 format.  It does not support encoding/decoding
multipart files.  However, Binhex 5.0 format is not "hqx" format.
The files created with the MacBinary encoder are given the default file
name extension "mbin".  Frankly, I don't know what BinHex 5.0 is used for.

The BinHqx DA encodes/decodes multipart BinHex 4.0 files, as noted above.
However, all versions of StuffIt support BinHex 4.0 encoding/decode as
well as file segmentation and rejoining.  This means that "join and decode"
is a two part operation in StuffIt, so it certainly could be argued that 
the BinHqx DA makes creation of multipart BinHex 4.0 files significantly easier.

-- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)