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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Packit + BinhHex; All in one; Is that possible?
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Date: Sat, 24-May-86 15:14:51 EDT
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In article <1283@princeton.UUCP> zabetia@princeton.UUCP (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
>
>Why doesn't the author of packit include a binhexing procedure in his program
>so only one application would be needed to send files?  Is that possible or am
>I missing something??

What you are missing is the fact that outside of Usenet, the BinHex 4 
encoding mechanism is obsolete, and unused. All the newer terminal emulators
including MacTerminal 2.0, Red Ryder, Freeterm  have a built in encoding
scheme called MacBinary. So encoding is not required in the packing program.

The reason it is not used on Usenet is that it is a full 8-bit binary 
encoding scheme, where BinHex 4 is a binary to ascii encoding scheme.
Only ASCII is guarenteed for Usenet mail paths, thus Usenet, the frontier,
for once remains behind the rest of the world.

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