Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!denbeste
From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Binhex section delimiters
Message-ID: <1177@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 13:28:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: bgsuvax.1177
Posted: Mon Jun 22 13:28:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 06:39:56 EDT
References: <8867@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Distribution: world
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Lines: 19

> (All references to binhex format are 4.0)

> When putting multi-part binhex postings together, I tend to search for
> the string "---" since it has become a fairly standard delimiter.

> Could we adopt a new standard of '::: end of part whatever :::' for
> delimiting sections of binhex.

what about searching for a space.  Binhex doesn't allow spaces, and
there is almost always a space somewhere in the message (either after
the --- or bewteen end and of).  It usually works pretty well to
search for a space and then go to the beginning of the line that it
occured on.

---
          William C. DenBesten | CSNET denbeste@research1.bgsu.edu
      Dept of Computer Science | UUCP  ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!denbeste
Bowling Green State University |
  Bowling Green, OH 43403-0214 |