Re: HyperCard Collections Available

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:35:54 GMT, "Adalbert Goertz"
<adalbert.goertz@pikespeak.net> wrote:

>I think that they should be in text format like bscii or mime
>or uuencode

Well, you can make them available that way and as I mentioned to Mike
Westerfield in a post the other day, I make the HyperCard IIgs A2U
course lessons on Delphi available as bother BXY and BSQ.  BXY is a
binary file (ShrinkIt file in a Binary II wrapper) and BSQ is a text
file (BINscii file).

The problem with making binary files available as text files is that
you must convert the binary file into a text file using a special
program like BINscii, UUEncode, MIME or similar.  In doing this
conversion of a binary file to a text file, you end up making the file
larger so it takes longer to download.

Personally, I've never had a problem downloading any binary file from
the internet so I do know it is possible for everyone out there to do
it too.

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