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From: cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BinHex
Message-ID: <4775@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 May 88 10:06:39 GMT
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Reply-To: cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.)
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In article <9882@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> alexlau@thoth6.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Actively Creates Leftovers) writes:
->I also had some problems decoding BinHex 4.0 files, but of a
->different skein.
->
->For me, the problem lay in the decoding itself.  I used Stuffit
->1.40A to decode files picked off of comp.binaries.mac, and it
->beeped and said, "A disk-related error caused ... etc. [-39]"
->
->Now, my question is, what is disk error "-39" and why did I get
->it?  Was it because I edited my files too much, cutting out
->everything but the weird-looking stuff?
->
->Replies by e-mail, unless it is a common enough problem.
->
->acl    {ihnp4,backbones}!ucbvax!bartleby.berkeley.edu!alexlau
->"Police, schmolice.  What we need is a cop."

Error -39 is an End of File error.

You will need to use BinHex whenever Stuffit refuses to decode a file.  As
I understand it, there are differences between the algorithm's used in the
two programs.

Stuffit will decode most files encoded by BinHex 4.0, and visa-versa; however
many files cannot be cross-decoded.  I don't know the specifics, but the
encoded files will look different if encoded by Stuffit rather than by
BinHex 4.0, which I believe is also different from BinHex 5.0.

-JimC
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