home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- id m0u2hE9-0007r9a; Fri, 29 Mar 96 09:40 MST
- Sender: owner-executor
- Received: by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3)
- id m0u2gvT-0007rCC; Fri, 29 Mar 96 09:21 MST
- Received: by faust.ardi.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
- References: <199603212309.RAA12784@source.inf.net>
- Message-id: <m0u2gtx-000GOKC@gwar.ardi.com>
- Subject: Re: .Bin Files
- Cc: executor@ardi.com
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- In-reply-to: <4jcc2c$cu7@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
- To: wmagro@msc.cornell.edu (William Magro)
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 09:19:49 -0700
- From: melissa@ardi.com (Melissa Algeo)
- Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com
- Precedence: bulk
-
- >>>>> "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
-
-