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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: downloads
Message-ID: <3676@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 09:49:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 19 09:49:44 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jul-86 05:57:02 EDT
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Summary: please don't *IGNORE* text in messages containing binhexed material


> The BinHex format uses a colon as "beginning-of-file" and "end-of-file", if
> you will.  Also, the message "This file must be converted...." is required,
> I think.  So, strip anything before the "This file..." message and everything
> after the "end-of-file" colon (but don't take out the colon!).
>  
> Note that xbin (the unix-based binhex) is smart enough to ignore most, if not
> all, leading and trailing garbage that BinHex 4.0 barfs on.

the danger in using xbin and macput rather than downloading the complete
article with xmodem, is that you may miss some plain-text information preceding
(sometimes appended to, which I hate and miss nearly *ALWYAS*) the binhex-part.

So it always pays to, at least, check the articles in *.sources* for such
text.  Personally, I usually post an announcement to net.micro.mac to indicate
something I put in net.sources.mac  and repeat that message at the beginning
of the net.sources.mac article.  I'm not aware of any standards here, other than
common sense.

---Werner