Binhex

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  BinHex
       
           A {Macintosh} format for representing a {binary
          file} using only {printable character}s.  The file is
          converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation.
          Because BinHex files are simply text they can be sent through


          most {electronic mail} systems and stored on most computers.
          However the conversion to text makes the file larger, so it
          takes longer to transmit a file in BinHex format than if the
          file was represented some other way.
       
          {Filename extension}: .hqx.
       
          See also {BinHex 4.0}, {uuencode}.
       
          [Encoding algorithm?]
       
          (1994-11-30)