Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!cloos 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 References: <9875@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <9882@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Lines: 34 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 -- batcomputer!cloos@cornell.UUCP |James H. Cloos, Jr.|#includecloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.EDU|B7 Upson, Cornell U|#include cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.EDU |Ithaca, NY 14853 |"Entropy isn't what cloos@crnlthry.BITNET | +1 607 272 4519 | it used to be."