Re: MacBinary 4 format
Re: MacBinary 4 format
- Subject: Re: MacBinary 4 format
- From: David Catmull <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:48:27 -0600
On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:16 PM, Mike Cohen wrote:
Yes, it was originally a way to transmit mac files via XMODEM
protocol, which is why everything was padded to 128-byte boundaries in
the original spec. It evolved into Binhex, which encoded everything in
ASCII. Macbinary is still sometimes used to encode files into a single
fork, but AppleSingle pretty much replaced it.
Ah, I somehow had the impression that it was the other way around. I
guess I should use AppleSingle instead then. After glancing over the
documentation, it does look better. It looks like it even supports long
file names, if I understand correctly.
--
David Catmull
email@hidden
http://www.uncommonplace.com/
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