>Folks -
>
>I just thought of another possibility.
>
>Does anyone know whether there are guidelines for deciding that a file is
>"text"?  For all I know, if the first 100 characters (ie the version
>banner) contained a couple of weird character codes, it would suffice to
>discourage all the standard network programs from messing with it.
>
>	- Dan

The problem in the Mac is because the source and changes files are created
with the 'TEXT' type, if the files are changed to a binary type such as the
generic '????' type, then Fetch or Stuffit Expander do not touch the file.