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From: herbw@midas.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: xbin is great, but it could be even better...
Message-ID: <1280@midas.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 13:55:49 EST
Article-I.D.: midas.1280
Posted: Wed Apr  8 13:55:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 08:32:17 EST
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Keywords: xbin, suggestions for improvement

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xbin is a marvelous tool.  I have not used BinHex since discovering xbin.
The following are two suggestions for making xbin even better:

1.  When xbin converts a file, it should issue a message reporting the filename
    of the result.  Since it currently does not do this, it is necessary to ls
    the directory to determine the name of the result, so it can be macput.

    Alternatively, there could be a switch so that xbin would perform a macput
    immediately after converting the file.

2.  Currently, when a program is too big to send as a single posting and must
    be split, each recipient must manually edit the file to remove the headers.
    I don't know if it is possible (perhaps an expert could enlighten me), but
    it would be very nice if xbin could detect "--- End of Part n ---" or some
    other character (or sequence of characters) which would normally never
    occur, and suspend the xbin operation until the "---" signifies the next
    piece.

I hope that the person or people who wrote/maintain xbin read these suggestions
and feel suitably inspired to update the program.  I (and probably many other
xbin users) would appreciate it.

                                  --- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)