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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: BinHex/ResEdit availability
Message-ID: <870225@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 88 16:12:27 GMT
References: <8483@cup.portal.com>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>Based on the above, I don't see how you could download BinHex from
>usenet in readyu-to-use form.  It would have to somehow be encoded into
>ascii, and you would need a decode program, which brings you back to where
>you started.  Chicken and egg.

Correct.

>So, you could join portal.  Or, another suggestion would be to look
>for Mac user groups.  They probably could help you.  There's probably
>a list of them somewhere on usenet, but I'm too new to it to know where.

A much easier way to get BinHex 4.0 would be to send BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh
User's Group) $4.00 and ask them for the diskette with this on it.  I don't
have their phone # or address handy; maybe someone else on the net does...

-Ted