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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt 1.40A UnBinHex
Keywords: The bug is really a feature - no joking
Message-ID: <1204@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 19 May 88 13:39:31 GMT
References: <4481@dasys1.UUCP> <1714@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <1714@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes:
>
>You may complain that some people are overzealous in stripping the
>header, but BinHex4 can handle such files just fine.
>

I have not found this to be the case.  Binhex 4.0 often chokes when
the header is too long, especially when there is a lot of explanatory
text preceding the colon.  This should be a trivial fix, but I don't
have binhex 4.0 source code, so I am forced to strip headers.  The
error message given is usually "CRC error".