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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 19 Jun 91 15:01:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.000825.23509@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Thank god, we don't have to play games with the likes of BinHex to interoperate
>with normal systems.

Uh, and neither do Mac users.  I've transferred binaries straight from Unix
machines to my Mac, and downloaded Mac binaries directly from several IBM
BBS systems.  Note that the accepted file formats on all the major
commercial online services is also binary. 

>What we *do* have is standard interchange formats, something the Mac doesn't.
>Instead of saying "this is a MacPaint file" we say "This is an interleaved
>bitmap". Much more useful.

Yep and so do we.  If you've missed the posts, the format is PICT.  The
file type information is used for the purposes of figuring out whether a
program can accept the drag and dropped file.