Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!philip
From: philip@hubcap.UUCP (Philip L Harshman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt hexification (Was: TechNotes 184 to 194 available...)
Message-ID: <1544@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 14:06:27 GMT
References: <245@uvabick.UUCP>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <245@uvabick.UUCP>, by thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin):
> 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

I had similar problems with old versions of StuffIt but found that they were
usually caused by non-BINHEX text in the file I was decoding.  The new StuffIt
(I have 1.40A) not only skips over text at the beginning of a BINHEX file as
BINHEX 5 does, it will also ignore non-BINHEX text in the middle of a file.
Now I no long have to cut the "Part n of x" messages out of a file that was
put together from multiple parts.  Please no flames on how I could have done
this with a simple shell script -- I'm glad not to have to do it at all now.
I think Raymond Lau deserves a vote of thanks.  I've sent in my money for
StuffIt and I only use it for unstuffing so far.

These opinions are my own.  Any resemblance to any other opinions living or
dead is coincidental.