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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Naming your Stuffit-packages
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.075223.28847@uwasa.fi>
Date: 14 Mar 90 07:52:23 GMT
Sender: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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I'm not flaming Mac OS or it's file naming policy:-

But what I want to do is PLEASE pay attention to the
naming of binhexed Stuffit files. At least if you are 
starting to spread a Stuffit file to ftp sites or BBSs.
Please use a little easier file names that is file 
names which dont't have spaces or exclamation or
commas or what ever more unusual characters because
I (and I think some others might as well) use to
unbinhex them in Unix machine and it is not very fun
to rename these (hopefully it can be done...) to more
familiar looking names. Let's assume for example that
you upload a binhexed Stuffit file called
'My Favourite Utilities v1.0.3d2.hqx'
to somewhere and I found it and decide to have a look
at it. I carefully (write it right and) download it
to our Unix machine and then use xbin to unbinhex it.
What I get is a file called
'MyxFavouritexUtilitiesxv1x0x3d2.sit.bin'
Like it, Huh?

Think about that. Thanks for reading this.

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	----------------Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi)-------------
			University of Vaasa, Finland
	anonymous ftp site (128.214.12.3) PC and Mac directories