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From: ee163ahe@sdcc13.UUCP (VICTOR ROMANO)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources,net.micro.mac
Subject: BinHex X.X version 1.0
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 15:00:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 15:00:07 1985
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	Before seeing BinHex 5.0 posted on the net, I never realized
	that there was any incompatibility between the various binhexes.
	I just figured that each different one has different "features",
	and once I got a version that worked, I didn't bother anymore.

	Now I haven't loaded very much software onto my Mac yet, but
	have loaded some, and some of the transfers were successful
	while others weren't.  I never knew what to blame for all those
	that failed, and I didn't want to take the time to figure out
	the problem because it would probably take me less time to
	rewrite the program than to figure out how to load it properly.

	Now, since there are several versions, I have to check every
	file before I download it to make sure that I have the proper
	BinHex.  Boy, what a real pain.  I also have to get all those
	old BinHexes that I never bothered to save (I only saved,
	I think, BinHex 2.0.  Or is it 3.0?  Or is it 2.37?)

	How about someone make a BinHex that has the following specifications:

		1)	By looking at the context of the file, figures out
			its BinHex format, and uncompacts it according to
			that format.

		2)	Is easily expandible.  That is, if someone makes
			a change and a file is sent on the net with yet
			another new format, the old program will still
			be able to read it!

	This whole thing would be a lot easier if, in every BinHex file,
	there is a field which indicates the format which it was converted.

				Victor Romano

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