roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) (05/29/91)
I need a description of the binhex file format. I'm especially interested
in how the checksum is calculated, on what part of the fil it is
calculated, what flags are saved (locked etc), which flags the encoder
and/or decoder should clear, and if the flags should be cleared after or
before you calculate the checksum.
Also only eight of the 16 Finder flags are included in the format, and neither
date created nor date modified are included. I would like to include the
other eight flags in the byte used for "protect" flag, but then other
decoders don't decode my files. What is the status of the protect flag, anyway?
BTW I need this for our (free) e-mail application MacPost.
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