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From: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit 1.31 and binhex
Message-ID: <2794@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 16:06:46 GMT
References: <10319@ufcsv.cis.ufl.EDU> <2689@dasys1.UUCP> <763@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
Lines: 27
Summary: Skipping Headers

In article <763@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, wenn@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (John Wenn) writes:
> 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


I'd love to put that in...!  According to the .Hqx format notes which I have,
encoding and decoding starts at the first colon.  But alas, msg. headers have
colons in them.

So, anyone care to enlighten me as to a technique of skipping over msg.
headers?  I've drawn a blank with this one..

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