Re: [WinMac] Re: Serving Mac files on a PC Web server

Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:14:03 -0400

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>>From: Thomas Roth <tomroth@wfubmc.edu>
>>No one has mentioned MacBinary (*.bin) which usually results in a smaller
>>file then BinHex. StuffIt Expander can handle that too!

>From: Alex Dearden <pata@doglover.com>
>Mac Binary would also lose its type and creator, wouldn't it?

No, that's the whole point of using MacBinary is so you can safely
transport Mac files on non-Mac computers. See TidBITS #445/31-Aug-98 for
more info about encoding schemes written by Adam C. Engst and Leonard
Rosenthol.

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