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From: wenn@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (John Wenn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit 1.31 and binhex
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Date: 29 Jan 88 18:39:43 GMT
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There is one improvement BinHex5 has that BinHex4 (and Stuff_It 1.31) do not.
BinHex5 will ignore all "header" material in a file and begin decoding at the
appropriate place.  BinHex4 and Stuff_It will NOT decode a file with extra
headers, complaining about "CRC Error".

I would just love it if Stuff_It ignored the extra headers.  All the stuff I
download from Usenet has them, and it's a pain to remove them.  Also the
headers usually provide minimal documentation.  How about it?  Next release?

/John

stuffedandhexedtodeath-ly