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From: wrp@krebs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit & BinHex
Message-ID: <270@krebs.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 09:51:40 EST
Article-I.D.: krebs.270
Posted: Wed Nov 11 09:51:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 12:09:23 EST
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Reply-To: wrp@krebs.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: University of Va., Charlottesville, VA
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>>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
>
>Nice as Usenet is, there isn't much sense in building in support for
>something that isn't generally needed. 

	SAVE BINHEX!!  Although many networks support 8-bit binary down
loads, I frequently find myself having to download from a host over a
terminal server/ modem / local area netword that does not support 8-bit
transfers.  Here at the University of Virginia, we have an Ungerman-Bass
LAN which will not pass ^S, ^P and who knows what else without an escape
character, and 2400 baud dial-up modems that wil not pass ^S at all.
As long as something is BINHEX'ed, this is not a problem. (BINHEX is also
great for mailing binaries)

Bill Pearson
wrp@virginia.EDU
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