Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack

John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu> Mon, 12 February 1996 22:10 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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Ned Freed <NED@INNOSOFT.COM> writes:
> It appears that
> munpack assumes that all use of QP is associated with text.

Munpack does have this assumption as a heuristic.  This heuristic is
made necessary by the design requirement that munpack not require user
configuration of which types are what.

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