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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: word/count DA question
Message-ID: <10976@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 02:46:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 02:46:01 1986
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In article <778@wang.UUCP> lee@wang.UUCP (Lee Story x77155 ms 1989) writes:
>[for the line-eater]
>
>This is not exactly a reply to the above, but I do look forward to
>trying Paul Dubois's program....
>
>I downloaded the grep utility to our Vax with the vnews "s" command,
>then uploaded to the Mac with umodem (on Unix V5, trying both the -sb
>and -st options) to Red Ryder 7.0.
>
>Since the only BinHex version I've seen on CS or UseNet in quite
>a while is version 5 (and it was the only one I had), that's what

BinHex5 creates an eight bit file which may get munged across Usenet,
BinHex4 creates a seven bit encoded file. So Usenet stayed with
BinHex4.  BinHex5 can decode, but not encode the previous versions.

>I used to reconstruct the Mac file.  Why do the recent postings to
>net.sources.mac generally say to convert with BinHex 4 ?
>
>The resulting files (plural, trying various umodem and BinHex options) all
>seems (from a Fedit examination) to be the same; they had only a resource
>fork, and were NOT applications.  Okay, so I changed their type to APPL,

Right, it's a DA. creator DMOV type DFIL. Use the font/DA Mover from Apple
to install it in your system.

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