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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacBinary
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 21:31:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 21:31:53 1987
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> I run a bulletin board system for macs and have been storing files in
> Binhex format. I have recently become aware that BinHex almost doubles
> the size of the files, which does not help out my hard disk situation

The claim that binhex almost doubles the size of files is not universally
true.  Take, as an example, the Decomprime program recently distributed in
comp.binaries.mac.  The binhex file is 278,999 bytes and the unbinhexed file
is 206,431.  This is a far cry from double the size.  Binhex increased the
size of the file by 35% in this case.

Duane