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Re: .Bin Files



>>>>> "Bill" == William Magro <wmagro@msc.cornell.edu> writes:

    Bill> In my experience, BinHex files normally carry a .hqx suffix.
    Bill> The .bin files I've come across have usually been MacBinary
    Bill> format.

MacBinary is another name for the BinHex 5.0 format.  The .hqx files
are in BinHex 4.0 format.  BinHex 5.0 encodes the Mac files as a
binary archive, while the BinHex 4.0 encodes them into ASCII.  Both
formats are useful for different purposes.

-- 
Melissa Algeo
melissa@ardi.com


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