Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!bgsuvax!denbeste From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Conjecture: why several tech notes failed Message-ID: <1457@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 13:47:22 GMT References: <15811@felix.UUCP> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 12 in article <15811@felix.UUCP>, bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) says: > Well, BinHex 4 is the one who produced the Hqx files, so I would assume that > it should be able to deHqx them. Most likely, the problem is that one or more > sites down the line decided to drop characters and corrupted the posting. I have had troubles with binhex deHqxing technotes that I had encoded just moments before. I believe that binhex4 has a lurking bug that shows up in decoding technotes. I have since switched to using xbin. -bill