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From: nicktrou@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Nikos Troullinos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: BinHex - uuencode XFCN
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.144053.9264@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 20:50:26 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
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Has anyone ever written a XFCN that does the binary to ascii encoding/decoding
of the style found in BinHex and 'uuencode' ? I think it would be very handy
when interfacing stacks using the full Mac character set (including foreign
text) to the 7-bit world of network mailers. In its simplest form it would just
encode (or decode) the text of a field. It should not be very difficult to
do the 3 to 4 byte encoding/decoding, but has some kind soul done this already?

-Nikos Troullinos
nicktrou@cat.syr.edu