When you use NCSA Telnet to connect to a host, your Macintosh is the telnet client. When you request a file transfer from your Macin tosh, the transfer is actually initiated on the host, making the host the FTP client and your Macintosh the FTP server. Your Macintosh can be both a telnet client and an FTP server at the same time. A MacBinary file has been encoded in the MacBinary file format so it can be stored for downloading later to a Macintosh. Because the file contains all the information contained in a normal Macintosh file, a MacBinary file can be used for transferring applications and other Macintosh-specific files.
MacBinary files are virtually useless on any other machine.
Last updated Oct. 26, 1998. All rights reserved.