Re: Binhex on IIgs?

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nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote,
in response to Michael Elliott:
>Does anyone know if there is a utiltity for the IIgs to
>unpack Macintosh Binhex files? If so, is it on Ground, and if so, where?
>I can't seem to find it if it is.

>   "I can't seem to find anything" appears to be a complaint uttered
>far too often here about ground. Forward your complaints to the
>admins; maybe one of these days, they'll clean up the rampant
>inconsistencies in the archive, crud that's flooding the drive, and
>rather than expectantly waiting for new stuff to come in (and bending
>over backwards in support of those who'll upload any crap), that they
>do something productive with their time like a good rearrangement of
>it.

Nate, Nate, Nate, when will you ever learn to get your _facts_
straight before you post something rather than spew worthless
rant.  Michael asked two simple questions, which you _did not_
answer, except to go off on a tangent with your own _opinions_. :)

If someone asks where to find something on ground and _you_ don't
know where it is, please DO NOT waste bandwith with your useless
rants as to why you think ground is crud or whatever.  Chances are
that in a day or two, someone will post the location.

Let's give a straight forward answer to Michael, shall we?

>--
><*> Nathan Mates http://www.visi.com/~nathan/      <*>
># What are the facts? Again and again and again-- what are the _facts_?
># Shun wishful thinking, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors
># think-- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?  -R.A.
>Heinlein

If there was no wishful thinking, then how would anything get improved?
People wanted to fly, so the the Wright Brothers invented the airplane
(seeing the potential market).  Even in our own Apple II forum, where
products are not very profitable today, wishful thinking is still a
driving force because it is a guage of neccessity.  Look at what
happened with MIME.  People wished that the GS could decode MIME
files and programmers noted that there was a need, so now there are
several.  Yes, the programmers wrote the programs, however think
about why they did so?  The one who released his as DelphiWare wanted
to support Delphi.  If he did not perceive that others needed a MIME
decoder, he would have wrote something else, right?

If there were no wishful thinking, the first humans in Africa would
have looked to the North and, without the want to move into Europe
and Asia, would have been stuck there forever and today we would
probably still be no different from other animals.  Because human
beings have looked to the moon and looked beyond the accepted
_facts_ that they couldn't fly, much less leave our planet, we
have achieved this feat.

Yes, facts are important.  But what makes people _apply_ those facts,
Nate?  Wishful thinking.  A computer can store as much facts as it
has disk space for, but because it does not begin to qualify as
intelligent.

-Scott G.