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12.10.1 Notes
There is an alternative, more powerful interface to the coder and decoder, see the source for details.
If you code or decode textfiles on non-Macintosh platforms they will still use the Macintosh newline convention (carriage-return as end of line).
As of this writing, hexbin() appears to not work in all cases.