From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Edward C. Bailey" To: Subject: Re: Docbook in Red Hat 7.1 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:34:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00029.html >>>>> "Hugo" == Hugo van der Kooij 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... Hugo> It might be an issue with the email software: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 Hugo> (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Since I got matching md5sums on the original and the files taken from my email, we either have a situation where my emailer (gnus) is both encoding and decoding incorrectly (so they cancel out, and I see no change), or I'm guilty of cockpit error, or some peoples' emailers are doing something incorrect when decoding. I'm not sure which it is, so I'll do some research on my end to see if I'm messing it up or not... :-) Ed -- Ed Bailey Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/