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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit & BinHex
Message-ID: <33124@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 18:34:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  5 18:34:08 1987
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In article <466@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>One of the posters awhile back had a great idea and I wanted to make sure
>it didn't get missed.  So to the authors of Stuffit....please consider building
>in a BinHex step to your program so people can Stuff/hex and Unhex/unstuff
>programs all in the same program....

This in unfortunately unlikely, because USENET is the only system (that I'm
aware of) that requires bitnet (I'm including INFO-MAC in here because it
is really a different form of the same net). Delphi, Compuserve, etc. all
allow 8 bit data transfers and support macbinary, which means that you don't
need the binhex step -- you download it and it's ready to go.

Nice as Usenet is, there isn't much sense in building in support for
something that isn't generally needed. 

chuq
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Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM	Delphi: CHUQ