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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Binscii (Re: ProDOS HyperC)
Message-ID: <12825@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 90 11:47:46 GMT
References: <1990Feb3.013555.3252@eng.umd.edu> <2054@psuhcx.psu.edu> <13558@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
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In article <13558@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes:
[chop]
>The moral: BINSCII ANYTHING YOU PLACE ON THE NET!  Fine, it takes 33%
>longer to upload and download, but then it's 99% more likely to work
>(notice how often even a BINSCII file gets munged--binary files are 10
>times more fragile...).  All it takes in one stupid EBCDIC computer to
>munge a binary file.
>
>The mini/mainframe world hasn't learned what 8-bit binary data is yet,
>so please, BINSCII all binary files!

Along these lines, is there a version of sciibin that can create binscii
files?  I haven't had time to figure out how to do it yet.

>			Kent Dickey
>kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU

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