On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:24:55 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
>
>> 525 $ make
>> make: gcc-config: Command not found
>> make: gcc-config: Command not found
>
>Which operating system are you using?
>
BunsenLabs.  I'm giving up; not strongly motivated.

>> o I'm surprised that the fake text file survived network newline conversions.
>
>I concluded that Listserv was pretty dumb, so I felt that an attachment
>with a filename ending in .txt would survive.
>
It arrived with: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 which protects it
pretty well.  Don't know if you or your MUA elected that.

>> o .zip is timezone-ignorant.
>
>Yes, it's derived from an old MS-DOS/PC-DOS command and those systems
>did not know for timezones when PKZIP was written. The archive file
>format does not permit timezone data.
> 
Pax might have done better.   Should be supported by any UNIX-like OS and
most Windows archive extractors.

-- gil

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