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From: furuta@uw-beaver (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: macget needed, information needed
Message-ID: <864@uw-beaver>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 03:51:03 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 17 03:51:03 1985
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References: <332@qumix.UUCP>
Reply-To: furuta@uw-beaver.UUCP (Richard Furuta)
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Summary: 

In article <332@qumix.UUCP> len@qumix.UUCP (Leonard Labar) writes:
>
>Also, why do we have so many formats (tohex, fromhex, binhex, binhcx,
>uucp, etc.)?  Has anyone done some work on standardization?

It's history.  tohex and fromhex were invented before binhex.  binhcx was
invented after binhex.  The new binhcx format (was it called hqx?) was just
invented.  Everyone hasn't updated their hex-producing software which is why
there are so many different version around.

>Also, why
>two mac nets?  I'm enthusiatic about net.sources.mac but I don't see
>why the other two can't be combined into one.

The two serve different purposes.  fa.info-mac is intended to be a place
where developers can talk to eachother.  It's highly moderated.  It's also
an Arpanet group, so you shouldn't be posting directly to it (mail the
information to the address given in the "From" line).  net.micro.mac is
unmoderated and is also not restricted in subject matter.  At some time, it
would probably make sense to gateway net.micro.mac to the Arpanet as well,
using one of the "transparent" schemes.

					--Rick