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From: mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger)
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Subject: Re: Thanks... (how to bootstrap BinHex)
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 14:59:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 14:59:47 1987
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The orignal BinHex (v 2.0 I believe) was actually created by an MS Basic
program that wrote a whole bunch of hex data out to a file.  It then diddled
with the header to get the resource and data forks set up right, and viola,
there was BinHex.  You could then use this version to download the newer
binhex's and use them.  Kind of a double bootstrap.  I suppose that someone
could redo this for the current version of BinHex, again running on the
assumption that everyone has MS basic.

			Marc Pawliger