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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: binhex versions
Message-ID: <33589@bbn.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 14:46:13 GMT
References: <65097AXS101@PSUVM> <1034@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
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In article <1034@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
|In article <65097AXS101@PSUVM> AXS101@PSUVM.BITNET (Adrian Sullivan) writes:
|>ok, now every time i see someone post a file they converted with binhex, they
|>ALWAYS say to convert with version 4.0 ... well, what's wrong with 5.0? is
|>there something i dont know about 5.0 and should? 
 . . .
|If you use BinHex 4.0 to convert your application to a text file, it
|automatically inserts the header "This file must be converted with Binhex 4.0".

I'll bet that when that comment was put into Binhex 4.0, it was
intended as a warning not to try to convert with an OLDER version;
Binhex 5.0 probably didn't even exist then!

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