Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt
From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit and Binhex
Message-ID: <2648@dciem.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 22:40:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: dciem.2648
Posted: Mon Feb 15 17:40:30 1988
References: <8802081557.AA01324@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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>  I was wondering why your Binhex encode put out a bad header line something
>like:
> 
>(This file can be decoded by Binhex or Stuffit)
> 
>!!!!???
> 
>The way you find the start of an HQX message is by looking for the line:
> 
>(This file may be decoded by BinHex 4.0)
> 
>(I think that is right, but check one for yourself!!!)
> 
>Believe it or not, that is how most all BINHEX replacements check for the
>beginning.  That line, THEN look for a colon...
> 
>Phil Hunt

So THAT's why the csli-abstracts.hqx ftp'd from russell.stanford.edu could
not be decoded by xbin, but worked OK with binhex on the Mac.  I thought
it was the missing newline at the end of the file.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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Magic is just advanced technology ... so is intelligence.  Before computers,
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intelligence now?  Obviously, it is what we can do that computers can't.