Re: [PLUG] MacBinary - again (was Re: reading old jpeg format?)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 5:47 PM -0400 8/22/02, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Um, not really, being as MacBinary still has a separate resource
> fork for me to break transfering across OSes that don't speak it
> and BinHex doesn't, being a plain text file.

	Sorry, wrong again...

	MacBinary a BINARY format that encodes both Mac OS forks (and 
other stuff) into a single data fork for transmission and storage on 
non-Mac OS platforms.

	BinHex is a TEXT format (ala Base64 and UUCode) that  encodes 
both Mac OS forks (and other stuff) into a single data fork for 
transmission and storage on non-Mac OS platforms.


> That was a lot of flaming and not much help,

	True, but I hate FUD...


> How would you
> recommend Jeff open that file some place *other* than Mac OS?

	I thought you had it working.  It looked like it was indeed a 
MacPaint file - in which case it may open with anything that supports 
that format.


Leonard
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