Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:09:23 -0700 as excerpted: > Hi Duncan, > I received 5 files that look liike you were trying to send me the > xorg.conf files but all got was the strange text below. > > Sorry, but thanks a lot for trying. > > Mark > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: >> =ybegin line=128 size=188 name=jed.monitors.conf >> }ПНЮУЩШJLwЩШУЮЩЬL43sОПШ
>> =yend size=188 crc32=27b260df OK, the files seem to have gotten thru. But they're yyencoded (yEnc), which is somewhat new (still about a decade old, tho, but that's new in terms of internet message encoding standards) and not something many mail clients probably understand, yet. Looks like they came thru without the references headers that would have threaded them appropriately, too, so they each appear as a thread starter, tho with the same topic as the original, if the client is using the references header to thread as it should, and not the subject header, as for instance MSOE does (or at least did last I used it a decade ago, anyway). I had wondered about that. And I don't yet see the text post that should have accompanied them, describing them. But the files did get posted as yenc so my experiment was successful, and I had already had my doubts about your ability to decode it if indeed it attached as yenc. I'll wait a bit more to see if the text post that should have accompanied them makes it, then repost the files as either uuencoded or identity/text (more or less copy/pasted as part of the message encoded, along with the description, if it doesn't make it by then. BTW, what client do you use? I see you have a gmail address, but do you use its webmail, or download to a local mail client? I might as well start figuring out which clients can take yenc/yyencode now, and which can't. I know you can't but don't know for sure what you're using. BTW2, if you needed to, you could run those files thru a decoder manually. uudeview (app-text/uudeview on gentoo) should work, as should yydecode (net-news/yydecode) and yencode (net-news/yencode). You could feed it the raw mail files on the command line and it should decode the yyencoded files. (There's a GUI front-ends for at least uudeview as well, controlled by USE=tk on gentoo.) But that shouldn't be necessary as I can and will simply resend as the more common uuencoded format, or since it's text files anyway, simply paste them (haven't decided which), now that I finished playing with my new toy. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
