Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack
John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu> Tue, 13 February 1996 22:46 UTC
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From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack
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hansen@pegasus.att.com writes: > But munpack uses a different heuristic for base64 encoding: it appears to > check to see if the content type is text and passes a flag to the base64 > decoder that says whether or not CR's should be suppressed. This heuristic > works well. That is because the heuristic is to use the choice of quoted-printable vs. base64 to intuit whether or not the object is textual. Few textual non-text/* objects are encoded in base64. All text/* objects are by the spec textual. -- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm+@CMU.EDU LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up
- 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