Re: Docbook in Red Hat 7.1

[Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org>]

On 26 Apr 2001, Edward C. Bailey wrote:

> >>>>> "Hugo" == Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org> writes:
>
> Hugo> On 26 Apr 2001, Edward C. Bailey wrote:
> ...
> >> I'm not sure why this is necessary; I just pulled the files down from my
> >> email, and compared them with the originals, and the files have
> >> identical md5sums.  So if anyone else sees this kind of problem, please
> >> let me know.  That way I can try to figure out whether it is my mailer
> >> doing bad MIME things or not...
>
> Hugo> I noticed they were encoded as: Application/OCTET-STREAM
>
> Hugo> Which should mean the get transfered pretty much transparant. But
> Hugo> after I saved them I found they were using CR/LF and vim reported
> Hugo> this as: "flo-db2indexed-html" [dos] 51L, 1166C
>
> Interesting; vim does not report this when I open the original file
> here...

I think the used MIMETYPE is confusing. When I check the original message,
with all the MIME stuff inside it, I noticed there do not seem to be any
DOS like CR/LF entries.

In my case PINE may be at fault (which just puts the ball back to Red Hat
as I use a Vanilla PINE from the latest errata ;-)

Hugo.

-- 
All email send to me is bound to the rules described on my homepage.
    hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org		http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/
	    Don't meddle in the affairs of sysadmins,
	    for they are subtle and quick to anger.