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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Switcher 4.3 problems
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 11:36:34 EDT
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> Has anybody had problems with the posting of Switcher 4.3 in net.sources.mac?
> I can convert it with xbin, but someone has told me that xbin won't work
> for them.  Has anybody succesfully used xbin on it?  Is there a problem
> with earlier xbins?  I am using the latest version.

I used an earlier version of xbin and got a working version of Switcher 4.3;
I am hesitant to throw away my 4.0 version, however, because of the checksum
problem with BinHex 4.0 and 5.0 (which I also encountered).

It appears that the poster of Switcher 4.3 used unxbin to convert it, and
that unxbin does NOT calculate the checksum correctly, or otherwise produces
a result that is incompatible with BinHex.  Until this problem is corrected,
I strongly suggest that unxbin NOT be used for software postings, since
many rely on BinHex exclusively (those not running UNIX on VAX's in
particular).

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
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