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- Macintosh 7 & 8 bit File Transfer Format - Protocol Independent
-
- Here is a description of the Hqx7 (7 bit format as implemented in BinHex
- 4.0) and Hqx8 (8 bit format) formats for Macintosh Application and File
- transfers. The main features of the formats are:
- 1) Error checking even using ASCII download (Hqx7 & Hqx8)
- 2) Compression of repetitive characters (Hqx7 & Hqx8)
- 3) 7 bit encoding for ASCII download (Hqx7)
-
- HQX Format Description (This is not intended to be a programmer's reference).
-
- The format is processed at three different levels:
-
- 1) 8 bit encoding of the file:
-
- Byte: Length of FileName (1->63)
- Bytes: FileName ("Length" bytes)
- Byte: Version
- Long: Type
- Long: Creator
- Word: Flags (And $F800)
- Long: Length of Data Fork
- Long: Length of Resource Fork
- Word: CRC
- Bytes: Data Fork ("Data Length" bytes)
- Word: CRC
- Bytes: Resource Fork ("Rsrc Length" bytes)
- Word: CRC
-
- 2) Compression of repetitive characters.
-
- ($90 is the marker, encoding is made for 3->255 characters)
-
- 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 -> 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77
- 11 22 22 22 22 22 22 33 -> 11 22 90 06 33
- 11 22 90 33 44 -> 11 22 90 00 33 44
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- 3) 7 bit encoding (Hqx7 only).
-
- The whole file is considered as a stream of bits. This stream will
- be divided in blocks of 6 bits and then converted to one of 64
- characters contained in a table. The characters in this table have
- been chosen for maximum noise protection.
- The format will start with a ":" (first character on a line) and
- end with a ":". There will be a maximum of 64 characters on a line.
- It can be preceeded by comments for novice users.
-
- Table:
- !"#$%&'()*+,-012345689@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVXYZ[`abcdefhijklmpqr
-
- Comment:
- (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
-
- Yves Lempereur [YVES]
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