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BinHex was originally written in 1981 by Tim Mann for the TRS-80 computer, as a standalone version of the encoding scheme of the popular terminal emulator ST80-III, for users of other terminals. It was used for sending files via major online services such as CompuServe which, not being 8-bit clean, required files to use ASCII armoring to survive. The system

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