Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!uvabick!thomas
From: thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt hexification (Was: TechNotes 184 to 194 available...)
Message-ID: <245@uvabick.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 00:08:32 GMT
References: <2596@utastro.UUCP> <2605@utastro.UUCP> <2610@utastro.UUCP>, <UWQnWXy00XoHE5Ylow@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Summary: StuffIt hqxifier and BinHex not interchangeable


Richard Siegel writes:

 > I have used BinHex to decode files that StuffIt is produced, and vice-versa.

Unfortunately, I have run into CRC errors in StuffIt while decoding BinHex
files that decoded fine with BinHex, _and_ the same problems vice-versa.  It
doesn't happen very often, but it still happens.

-- Thomas Fruin

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