[MacPerl] (ANN)Bit::ShiftReg 2.0 & Compress::LZF 0.05 Mac

2001-02-16 Thread Thomas Wegner
Dear MacPerl Users, two more modules have made their way to Mac OS: Bit::ShiftReg 2.0 -- Bit Shift Registers with Rotate / Shift Operations Description: "Implements rotate left, rotate right, shift left and shift right operations with carry flag for all C integer types." and Compress

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2001-02-16 Thread Alan Fry
I have sent two test files (a text file that failed to make it through to the list) to Ask Bjorn Hansen and received these replies: 1) in relation to a 'BinHex' attachement: At 2:53 am -0800 16/02/01, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: >yes, application/mac-binhex40 is filtered out. If you can ask on the

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2001-02-16 Thread Paul Schinder
At 12:38 PM + 2/16/01, Alan Fry wrote: >I have sent two test files (a text file that failed to make it >through to the list) to Ask Bjorn Hansen and received these replies: > >1) in relation to a 'BinHex' attachement: >At 2:53 am -0800 16/02/01, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: >>yes, application/mac

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2001-02-16 Thread Chris Nandor
At 12:38 + 02.16.2001, Alan Fry wrote: >I have sent two test files (a text file that failed to make it >through to the list) to Ask Bjorn Hansen and received these replies: > >1) in relation to a 'BinHex' attachement: >At 2:53 am -0800 16/02/01, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: >>yes, application/mac-

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2001-02-16 Thread Paul Schinder
At 8:17 AM -0500 2/16/01, Chris Nandor wrote: > > >At 07:45 -0500 02.16.2001, Paul Schinder wrote: >>At 12:38 + 02.16.2001, Alan Fry wrote: >>>My own feeling is I _would_ like to see it removed. Unencoded >>>scripts, documents with long lines and/or high-ascii characters >>>always get mangled

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2001-02-16 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:37:10AM -0500, Paul Schinder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 8:17 AM -0500 2/16/01, Chris Nandor wrote: > > > >True; but that said, wouldn't using AppleDouble strip out the resource > >data, if I am reading Ask correctly? It seems like AppleDouble is fine for > >patches

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2001-02-16 Thread Peter Savage
>Drifting even further off topic, if you're under Unix and want to deal >with BinHex'd things, you want megatron (no really, that's what it's >called), which includes tools to deal with AppleSingle, MacBinary, and >BinHex'd files (to and from). > Or you can use Expander from Aladdin Systems:

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2001-02-16 Thread Paul Schinder
At 10:17 AM -0800 2/16/01, Peter Savage wrote: > >Or you can use Expander from Aladdin Systems: > And where can I find that for SPARC Solaris, ppc-linux, and HP-UX? But that's not the point. If you send Appledouble (which is an RFC

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2001-02-16 Thread John Delacour
On day16/2/01 at 7:45 am -0500, Paul Schinder wrote: >>For Mac users 'BinHex' is kind of the conditioned reflex and for >>Eudora fans the usual (?) default setting. > >It shouldn't be, for just the reasons Ask mentioned. Just have >Eudora use Appledouble. If that's not the default these days,