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To: Reid Sweatman 
From: kim@headspace.com (Kim Cascone)
Subject: Re: MIDI Files in BIN Format
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>I believe those .BIN files are binhexed (might just be another proprietary 
>Mac format, too; dunno).  In any event, if you want to communicate with 
>non-Mac machines, you have to use a common format, not a proprietary one. 
.bin files are not neccessarily binhexed...the suffix for binhex is .hqx...

> The equivalent in PC terms, to turn it around, would be if a PC user sent 
>you a Zipped file; you wouldn't be able to read it on the Mac.
this is not true...I can zip files and read zip files on my Mac...it's the
(PC) binary exe's that won't run on the Mac after you unzip them...

>  Likewise, 
>you couldn't view a Tarred UNIX file.  However, there is a standard MIDI 
>file format, and your software probably creates it; check the output 
>options of your software.  On the PC such files have extensions of .MID; I 
>don't know what they'd be called on the Mac, but probably something real 
>similar.  Hope this helps.
the Mac uses resource forks which contain a Creator and Type that tell the
MacOS what kind of file it is looking at...smf's created on the Mac have
this but smf's create on PC's don't (PC's use suffixes for extension
mapping)...
peaceOut()
KIM

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