jhardman@prandtl (John P. Hardman) (01/19/88)
Hear ye, hear ye, Stuffit 1.30 is available and it now supports BinHex (HQX) format. I will be posting it to comp.binaries.mac tomorrow. Check it out! Best, JPH "The preceding opinion is solely my own and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer, NASA, or the United States Government." jhardman@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov John P. Hardman m/s 258-6 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035
raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau) (01/20/88)
In article <131@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, jhardman@prandtl (John P. Hardman) writes: > Hear ye, hear ye, Stuffit 1.30 is available and it now supports BinHex (HQX) > format. I will be posting it to comp.binaries.mac tomorrow. Check it out! > > Best, > JPH > > jhardman@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov > John P. Hardman I have sent (or tried to) 1.31 to the moderator. 1.31 just fixes a bug in converting .pit files in 1.30 (1.30 was never widely distributed in the first place.) -- Raymond Lau GEnie: RayLau 100-04 70 Ave. CIS: 76174,2617 Forest Hills, NY 11375-5133 Delphi: RaymondLau United States of America MacNET: RayLau uucp: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (..{phri,cucard,bc-cis,mstan}!dasys1!raylau})
cimeti@nucsrl.UUCP (Israel Cimet) (01/21/88)
>I have sent (or tried to) 1.31 to the moderator. 1.31 just fixes a >bug in converting .pit files in 1.30 (1.30 was never widely >distributed in the first place.) >Raymond Lau GEnie: RayLau I disagree. I saw Stuffit 1.30 in Mac BBSs accross the country (eg.: Macinfo in California, Desktoppers in Chicago, etc.). The new version arrived one or two days later. Never underestimate the power of networking!. (BTW, good job Ray!!. Downloading from USENET is now painless wih the addition of binhex decoding/encoding). -------------------- I. Arieh Cimet Northwestern University
tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) (01/22/88)
I'm curious as to the reason for implementing BinHex 4.0 version of encoding/decoding. Anything I donwload from GEnie must be decoded using BinHex 5.0, Stuffit simply chokes on these. :------------------------------------------------------------: : Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : : Mentor Graphics GEnie: XPC23637 : : : : . . . and this shall be Max Headroom's finest hour. : : - Max Headroom : :------------------------------------------------------------:
kateley@apple.UUCP (Jim Kateley) (01/23/88)
In article <1988Jan21.113707.711@mntgfx.mentor.com> tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) writes: >I'm curious as to the reason for implementing BinHex 4.0 version of >encoding/decoding. Anything I donwload from GEnie must be >decoded using BinHex 5.0, Stuffit simply chokes on these. ^^^^^^^^^^ BinHex 5.0 is for MacBinary files, and it will not convert BinHex 4.0 files. If you are downloading files from Genie, you should have your terminal emulator set for MacBinary, and tell Genie you want to do a Xmodem download. Then you don't need to do anything to the files once you get them, they will be converted properly. You only need BinHex 4.0 for files that are transmitted over ascii lines (like Usenet...) > >:------------------------------------------------------------: >: Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : >: Mentor Graphics GEnie: XPC23637 : -- Jim Kateley Applelink: kateley1 UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!kateley CSNET: kateley@apple.COM Disclaimer: What I say, think, or smell does not reflect any policy or stray thought by Apple Computer, Inc.
macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) (01/24/88)
> BinHex 5.0 is for MacBinary files, and it will not convert > BinHex 4.0 files.... I don't think this is correct. Although BinHex 5.0 is indeed for Macbinary files, it is also backwardly compatible in _decoding_ files produced with BinHex 4.0. Thus, if you have gotten a file from this system and you want to convert it to an application, you can use either BinHex 4.0 or BinHex 5.0 to accomplish this, even though the file header reads that BinHex 4.0 is to be used. I'm pretty darn sure that I am right in this, as I did it two days ago... Jim USENET --> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) My own opinions, of course.
clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) (01/27/88)
In article <7253@apple.UUCP> kateley@apple.UUCP (Jim Kateley) writes: >BinHex 5.0 is for MacBinary files, and it will not convert >BinHex 4.0 files. Really? The last time I used BinHex 5.0, a couple of weeks ago, it converted a BinHex 4.0 file to the target (StuffIt) file. As for StuffIt, I am looking forward to no longer using a separate application to un-BinHex postings to the net. Of course, StuffIt 1.20 needs improvements to be made to it's user interface. > >Jim Kateley Jason Haines, President Club Mac Macintosh Users Group, Sydney, Australia Phone Home: +61-2-73-4444 Snail: Box 213, Holme Building, Sydney University, NSW, 2006, Australia ACSnet: clubmac@runx.ips.oz ARPA: clubmac%runx.ips.oz@uunet.uu.net UUCP:{enea,hplabs,mcvax,prlb2,uunet,ubc-vision,ukc}!munnari!runx.ips.oz!clubmac