On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you > please, Please, PLEASE, attach them as Text/PLAIN? > > I use Pine over a ssh connection to read wine-{devel,patches}, and I can Use a better mailer like mutt ;) ?
> simply view the Text/PLAIN attachments, whereas I have to: > -- press V to view the list of attachments > -- select the attachment I want to view > -- press S to save it to disk This is what have todo with mutt too, but I don't have to save. I press <Enter> to display the message. mutt complains about not having an appropiate method for the mime type and displays it in it's internal pager. I suspect this should work in pine too. > -- exit Pine > -- start vi to actually view the thing > -- restart pine... Uuuh ... this is like rebooting. Has pine a "pipe" function (it's long ago when I saw The Light and switched to mutt)? That's what i do in mutt wenn I get an gzip'ed patch: go to the list of attachments, select the attachment and pipe it through zless. So no need to leave the mailer. > Just to view a Application/OCTET-STREAM attachment. They don't annoy me too much, but the extra key strokes I need to view them will get me the carpal tunnel syndrome. bye michael P.S.: sorry, couldn't resist > Which means 2 things: > -- I get frustrated (and look what happens when I do:)) > -- I simply ignore those patches > > For all these reasons (and more), I think Linus is right when he insists on: > -- ONE patch per email > -- ONLY Text/PLAIN attachments. -- Michael Stefaniuc Tel.: +49-711-96437-199 System Administration Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hauptstaetterstr. 58 http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart
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