Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!sunybcs!oswego!ostroff
From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BinHex 4.0 vs 5.0 question
Keywords: BinHex question
Message-ID: <883@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 88 22:21:07 GMT
References: <2142@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: SUNY Oswego
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In article <2142@alliant.Alliant.COM> doherty@Alliant.COM (Dave Doherty) writes:
>I have a BinHex question. I have several files that have:
>(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
>
>My question is... Can I use BinHex 5.0? I thought I could and have done it
>before but now I'm have problems. 
>

You *shouldn't* have any problems converting a file created with BinHex 4.0 
using Binhex 5.0 - at least it's always worked for me.  It won't work the
other way around, though.  If you convert an application using BinHex 5.0,
it *can't* be converted back using 4.0.

Also note that BinHex 5.0 does not convert an application into a suitable form
to post on a UNIX system (at least, it wouldn't for me :-)  It uses some
sort of "MacBinary" format which contains non-printing. 

Another important note - BinHex 4.0 is PUBLIC DOMAIN (free to copy and keep),
whereas 5.0 is SHAREWARE (you *did* send in your $10 fee....right?).  All
things considered, if you just want to send/receive files from a UNIX system,
you might as well stick with BinHex 4.0 [personal opinion].

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