<file format> 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.
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