On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Anonymous Prime wrote: > Binhexing stuff for the web is entirely unnecessary. BinHex makes a > file > suitable for transmission over email or Usenet, which were originally > intended for ASCII text only, and only used 7 bits per character. > BinHex > (and UUencode, base64, and other such encodings) actually makes the > files > *bigger*. It's pointless for the 8-bit WWW. > Actually a lot of people still download via a slow modem connection, for which binhexing *is* a good way to go. It's more reliable to download.
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