Jerry Sweet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In nmh-1.0.3, the %a escape in an mhshow-show profile entry can yield
> trailing garbage characters.
>
> For example, consider this nmh-1.x profile entry:
>
> mhshow-show-application/octet-stream: %posdec %a '%F'
>
> In nmh-0.27 and prior, the %a escape would have yielded a substitution
> like so:
>
> name=name-of-file
>
> ...where name-of-file was the value of the "name" parameter, stripped
> of quotes.
>
> In nmh-1.0.3, the %a escape appears to yield a substitution that
> includes the quote characters and some trailing garbage, e.g.:
>
> name="name-of-file"t/M
>
> The addition of quote characters seems like a good idea since some
> file names might contain spaces and other meta-characters. However,
> the trailing garbage seems like a bug.
Sounds like a bug in Dan Winship's new %-escape security code. Dan, think
you'll be able to look at this yourself any time soon?
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