Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack
Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com> Sun, 11 February 1996 19:57 UTC
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From: Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack
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> No, the program is encoding CR's as =0D. The problem is that munpack is > stripping those out after decoding them. My query to the group was: is > munpack wrong in doing so? You and Ned appear to agree with my feeling that > munpack is indeed wrong. I agree that it is wrong to do this with non-text material. It appears that munpack assumes that all use of QP is associated with text. There are plenty cases where this won't be true, however -- I find QP to be quite useful in handling application/postscript, for example, and PostScript is definitely *not* textual in form. Ned
- questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Jamie Zawinski
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Jamie Zawinski
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… John Gardiner Myers
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… John Gardiner Myers
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Keith Moore
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed