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From: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt 1.40A UnBinHex
Keywords: The bug is really a feature - no joking
Message-ID: <701@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 25 May 88 20:24:53 GMT
References: <4481@dasys1.UUCP> <1714@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <1714@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes:
>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.

However, it gags on files with big headers
like files you grab off of USENET.

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

If you will remember, there was a big flurry over the fact that Ray put:

	(This file must be converted with BinHex or Stuffit)

rather than the standard:

	(This file must be converted with BinHex)

this was because several other programs that did dehexification of
BinHex 4.0 files (UNIX, I believe) were expecting to see this EXACT
header when attempting to de-hexify.

If the net community demanded that this header be there in this exact
form, then Ray should only expect that you would do the same for
HIS program.

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