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From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: BinHex
Message-ID: <213@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 01:53:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 01:53:08 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 05:52:21 EST
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I have just posted BinHex.Bas and BinHex.Hex to net.sources.  BinHex.Bas is
the BASIC version; use it to convert BinHex.Hex as follows:
        1. Use BinHex.Bas to convert BinHex.Hex to BinHex.Tmp
        2. Use BinHex.Tmp to convert BinHex.Hex to BinHex
            (this will make the special icon show up)
        3. Throw away BinHex.Bas, BinHex.Hex, and BinHex.Tmp
            (the assembly-language version is much faster than the
             BASIC version and will handle more types of Mac files)

BinHex files can be identified by the "*** DATA FORK" or "*** RESOURCE FORK"
towards their beginning; the ones that just look like straight ASCII garbage
(without any header) are "tohex" files which must be converted with "fromhex."
The "fromhex" format predates "binhex" format but is not nearly as useful.