Editing MacBinary (section)

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| extension = .bin
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| uniform type = com.apple.macbinary-archive
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'''MacBinary''' is a [[file format]] that combines the data fork and the [[resource fork]] of a [[classic Mac OS]] file into a single file, along with [[Hierarchical File System (Apple)|HFS's]] extended [[metadata]]. The resulting file is suitable for transmission over [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]], the [[World Wide Web]], and [[electronic mail]]. The documents can also be stored on computers that run operating systems with no HFS support, such as [[Unix]] or [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].

MacBinary was widely supported on the [[Macintosh]] and was built into most communications programs on that platform. Similar solutions were built into most [[data compression]] applications on the Mac, and although these did not require MacBinary to survive transmission across non-Mac systems, MacBinary was often added in these cases to preserve longer filenames and other features.

The dual-fork nature of the HFS system was not used on [[Mac OS X]], and MacBinary has largely disappeared.