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From: vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Switcher 4.3 problems
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 08:32:32 EDT
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> Also, I have noted that files that xbin has no trouble with will not work
> for me with BinHex 5.0 on my Mac.  They get a checksum error.  But xbin and
> macput work fine.  Anybody know what gives?
> 
xbin always searches for a line that starts "(This file must be converted..."
before starting its conversion.  BinHex doesn't.  My experience is that for
binhex to work correctly, you should remove anything above the "must be
converted" line.  Because binhex 4.0 stuff is delimited by colons, netnews
headers give binhex severe indigestion.

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