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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt 1.40A UnBinHex
Keywords: The bug is really a feature - no joking
Message-ID: <1714@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 01:13:30 GMT
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In <4481@dasys1.UUCP>, Raymond Lau writes:
| It was also noted that a : never starts a line in the news/mail header...
| 
| Instead of checking for (This file..., what 1.40A does is check for a colon
| right after a CR or a LF.  It will start decoding at that point.

You may complain that some people are overzealous in stripping the
header, but BinHex4 can handle such files just fine.

Why not look for the first line that starts with a ":"?

Duane Williams
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