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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BinHex 4.0
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Date: 29 Jul 88 18:20:35 GMT
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>What is BinHex 4.0, and where can I get it?

A MACINTOSH program "hexifies" Macintosh binary files so they can be
transmitted over EBCDIC<--->ASCII networks.

> I got the VIRUSREM PACKAGE
>from listserv@scfvm, since there is this wonderful little apple virus going
>around, and according to the directory file, a lot of the files in it
>are for apples. Since all the files have a line at the beginning saying

For APPLE 2's or for Macintoshes (also Apples -- these days Mac users seem
to expect "Apple" to mean Macintosh)?


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