Subject: Re: binhex4 vs binhex5 vs macbinary
To: Keenan Brock <kfb2@lehigh.edu>
From: Kenneth Knight <krk@oit.itd.umich.edu>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 04/25/1994 20:40:49
>
>to convert file.cpt.bin 0 -> file.cpt
>use binhex5 or macbinary - they are the same protocol.
>found in programs like stuffit-Delux/Lite, macbinary and binhex5

No, BinHex and MacBinary are not the same. BinHex4 is much like uuencoding
in that it converts a binary file to PRINTABLE ASCII. BinHex 4 uses. 
BinHex5 uses an extened ASCII set (4 just uses 6 bits of data) and was
meant for mostly Mac-to-Mac transfers. It isn't used much.

MacBinary takes the binary data of the 2 forks (data, resource) and simply
concatenates them together along with the appropriate header info. By its
nature it creates smaller files than BinHex (on average about a third
smaller). 

  ** Ken **


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