Gavin_Eadie@UM.CC.UMich.EDU (Gavin Eadie) (10/10/90)
There is a problem with BinHex in that it will not always decode binhex'd files correctly. I have changed to always use StuffIt's binhex decode instead of the BinHex application. I've seen reference to this problem before but do not remember the details. However, I'll bet that the Disinfectant file was not binhex encoded with the BinHex application. --------- Gavin_Eadie@UM.CC.UMich.EDU University of Michigan Information Systems
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct9.185112.16027@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Gavin_Eadie@UM.CC.UMich.EDU (Gavin Eadie) writes: > There is a problem with BinHex in that it will not always decode binhex'd > files correctly. I have changed to always use StuffIt's binhex decode > instead of the BinHex application. I've seen reference to this problem > before but do not remember the details. However, I'll bet that the > Disinfectant file was not binhex encoded with the BinHex application. I used Stuffit 1.5.1 to do the BinHex encoding. But I've been doing this with StuffIt since the Disinfectant 1.0 release, and this is the first time people have reported a problem. It's interesting that some of the people on CompuServe are having a similar problem. Evidently, some people who used an older version of Navigator to download the .sea file (not binhexed on CompuServe, by the way), also could not get the self-extraction to work and had to use the extractor program. The sysops on CompuServe say that this is an error in the earlier versions of Navigator. I don't have a clue as to what the problem is. If anybody has more information, please let me know. I decided to use self-extacting Compactor archives instead of StuffIt 1.5.1 archives for the Disinfectant 2.2 release for the simple reason that Compactor produces much smaller archives. In the case of Disinfectant 2.2, the self-extracting Compactor archive is about 165K, while the StuffIt archive is about 201K. This is especially important to those poor slobs who must shlep these files around over slow modems. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu