Re: [stella] BinHex.hqx

Subject: Re: [stella] BinHex.hqx
From: Galen Tatsuo Komatsu <gkomatsu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 16:31:11 -1000 (HST)
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andrew Davie wrote:
> Binary files are only 4K anyway, and really should be posted
> uncompressed, IMHO. I simply won't be looking at .hqx compressed
> files, no matter what they are.

	It's a text encoding to allow transmission of binary
data in a text message. It's no more a compression scheme
than uuencode is...it'll actually make your file larger.



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