Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- From: Pejvan BEIGUI <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 03:26:51 +0200
On 11/08/02 3:12, "Gregory Weston" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 8/10/02 at 1:24 AM, Scott Anguish <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:24 PM, David Rehring wrote:
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>> -most users know what .sit/.hqx files are [that they are somehow
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>> 'packaged' versions of actual file]. '.gz' is a relatively unknown
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>> extension in the Mac experience
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> then they need to learn. hqx is an abomination that should have
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> disappeared 5 years ago around the time that uuencoding did.
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It didn't? I honestly can't recall the last time I saw an HQX file. I'm quite
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used to seeing unadorned .sit. Heck, even my very Mac OS mail program doesn't
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default to HQX (although it does offer it) for attachments.
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G
Just take a look at the commonly shared idisks. I haven't used mine for a
loooooong time, but I recall having files automatically hqxed and renamed.
Something like foobar.tgz would become foobar.tgz-binhex.hqx
Plus it's not necessary to .hqx or .bin stuffit archives since the version 5
of StuffIt, where .sit archives wouldn't have a ressource fork anymore.
Pejvan
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