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- On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:35:34 -0500 (EST), John Hess <johnhess@cris.com> wrote:
- >[At 08:56 PM 3/26/96 -0500, Steve D. wrote:
- >[>Calvin Smith wrote:
- >[>> What are .Bin Files and can they be used with executor?
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- >[>They are bin-hex encoded files. You can unencode them with binhex
- >[>(included) or Stuff-it expander...
- >[>
- >They are binhex. You should be able to "unstuff" them just like you would a
- >".hqx" file and then use them normally.
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- On Macintosh ftp sites, .bin are MacBinary files.
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- .sit are stuffit files which you can unstuff.
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- .hqx are encoded files (similar to uuencode or MIME base 64) using 7-bits so
- that they can be reliably stored and transmitted by non-machintosh machines.
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