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Subject: FAST version of BinHex
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 02:47:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 02:47:33 1984
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From: Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.arpa
Recently Yves Lempereur of Mainstay (the company that puts out MacASM) wrote
an assembly-language version of BinHex and placed it in the public database
section of Compuserve.  This new version has several major advantages over
the BASIC version:

    (1) It runs MUCH faster
    (2) It takes up less space on a Mac disk
    (3) It can handle data and resource forks longer than 64K
    (4) It can handle files with both data & resource forks
    (5) It can save and restore finder attributes like the bundle bit
    (6) It can produce & decode special "condensed" hex files which
        are about 30% shorter than "normal" hex files.

The new version of BinHex is itself encoded in BinHex format.  To convert it
back to normal format, you should:

    (1) Use the BASIC version of BinHex to convert the upload document
        BinHex.Hex into the application document BinHex.Tmp,
    (2) Use BinHex.Tmp to convert BinHex.Hex into BinHex, and
    (3) Throw away BinHex.Hex and BinHex.Tmp

My next message will contain BinHex.Hex.  I assume that it will be intercepted
and stored on [sumex-aim]<info-mac>.