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From: ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shouldn't StuffIt implement atob/btoa?
Message-ID: <645@cf-cm.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 08:58:36 GMT
References: <604@tekno.chalmers.se>
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
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In-reply-to: d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se's message of 9 Mar 89 00:03:15 GMT

One good reason for not using atob and btoa - not all systems which people
want to download/upload .hqx archives on are Unix machines. Case in point -
we have a multics system here which barfs if fed either ofg the characters
@ or #.

What I would like to see instead is a stuffit option which says
make and archive AND binhex encode it, all in one go, and vice versa,
to save on interaction time with stuffit.
-- 
Dr Ralph Martin
Department of Computing Mathematics
University of Wales College of Cardiff
PO Box 916
Cardiff
CF2 4YN
United Kingdom