| Domain | Definition |
| Computing | BinHex A Macintosh format for representing a binary file using only printable characters. 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) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
| Environment | (BINary HEXadecimal) A method for converting non-text files (non-ASCII) into ASCII. This is needed because Internet e-mail can only handle ASCII. See also: ASCII, MIME, UUENCODE. (references) |
| Technology | A file conversion format that converts binary files to ASCII text files. (references) |
| Wikipedic | BinHex, short for "binary-to-hexadecimal", is an ASCII armoring system that was used on the Mac OS for sending binary files through E-mail. It was similar to uuencode, but combined both "forks" of the Mac file system together, along with extended file information. BinHexed files take up more space than the original files, but are far less likely to be corrupted in transit. (references) |
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