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From: tleaming@taurus.sim.es.com (Taylor Leaming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: recombination of multi-part binhex files
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Date: 15 May 91 13:51:25 GMT
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In article <1991May14.120059.26663@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> 
art_jeyes.f2b@f2bgate.jhuapl.edu (Art Jeyes) writes:
> Would anyone be kind enough to share the secret of combining multiple 
> part binhexed files... I have binhex version 5.0 and stuffit verssion 1.5
> and have been unable to make it work... it always seems to wind up with a 
> Checksum error 


First of all, when using BinHex and Stuffit, make sure that when you 
recombine multi-part messages you get then in the right order and make
sure that all headers and footers are removed from each message.

This is tedious and error-prone.

My suggestion is to use BinHqx DA v1.2 to recombine multi-part postings.
It has a JOIN option which will prompt you for each successive part, and
then takes care of all the rest (stripping, appending and then decoding the
BinHex file).  Then use StuffIt to unarchive the resulting file.

BinHqx DA v1.2 is available on SUMEX-AIM


Taylor Leaming
tleaming@taurus.sim.es.com
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.