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From: barry@playfair.STANFORD.EDU (barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BinHex 4.0 vs. 5.0
Keywords: BinHex
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Date: 21 Dec 89 23:39:31 GMT
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Sender: Barrett P. Eynon <barry@playfair.stanford.edu>
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In article <30103@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) 
writes:
>All the files I see here say MUST use BinHex 4.0.  I've seen 5.0 on some
>Macs... is this really 5.0?  Why isn't 5.0 used elsewhere?

It is, but we can't use it - Binhex 5.0 is an 8-bit binary format, also 
known as MacBinary format. Many terminal programs translate files to and
from this format automatically, and many BBS's store their files in this
format. (Such files often have the .bin suffix.)  But 8-bit files can't be 
sent through email on the net, so most net archives use Binhex 4.0 (.hqx)
format, which is a  7-bit format which will go through mailers.Barry Eynon
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