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From: tim@ISM780B.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: To all the saviors of USENET
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 19:47:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 19:47:00 1985
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/* Written  2:24 pm  Nov 12, 1985 by mike@dolqci in ISM780B:net.news */

A question: I have never understood why everybody always posts 
mac sources in bin-hex form.  Why not SOURCE CODE?  It would take 
a lot less room!  

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Binhexed executables are probably smaller than source code.  I don't have
my mac here at the moment, so I can't get any mac examples, but consider
the System V.2 shell.  The source is about 140k, and the executable is
around 40k.  Binhex repaces 6 bit sequences with eight bit ones, so even
after binhexing, we have a considerable savings.