Editing MacBinary (section)

==History==
The first incarnation of MacBinary was released in 1985. The standard was originally specified by Dennis Brothers (author of the terminal program MacTEP and later an Apple employee), BinHex author Yves Lempereur, [[PackIt]] author Harry Chesley, et al. then added support for MacBinary into BinHex 5.0, using MacBinary to combine the forks instead of his own methods. Most [[terminal program]]s and [[internet]] utilities added built-in MacBinary support during this period as well.

Two years later it was updated to '''MacBinary II''', to accommodate changes in Mac OS. MacBinary II remained compatible with subsequent updates of the operating system for some time. This changed with the release of [[Mac OS 8]], which necessitated the release of '''MacBinary III''' in 1996. In the meantime, Apple itself had released the AppleSingle and AppleDouble formats, which serve the same purpose as MacBinary, but correct some problems with it.