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From: mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Thanks... (bootstrapping BinHex)
Message-ID: <kVFOMey00V4AwqI0c4@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 15:04:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  9 15:04:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 11:00:38 EDT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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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 used to have this
laying around, but I can't seem to find it now.  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