No deltas via email anymore?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Stephen McKay wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20th January 2010, "Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> 
> >75 seems low, considering MS addicts write extremely long
> >lines at times (I suppose that's why - sigh).
> >
> >	uuencode 	61
> >	fmt		65
> >	MIME base64	72
> >	punch cards	72
> >	MSexchange	75
> >	ctm_rmail	76
> >
> >I guess there would be no objection if you wrote patches for:
> >	- ctm_rmail to also support receipt of smaller lines.
> >	- ctm_smail to optionally generate shorter lines.
> 
> It would be trivial to change ctm_smail to send lines of 72 characters.
> It would reduce the encoding efficiency slightly, but not enough to
> worry about.  It is not worth making it optional.  I'll probably do
> this when I get a moment.

Reason I imagined it would bet better witha an  option on send,
& auto detect on receive:

  There's perhaps people out there running CTM to distribute stuff
  other than FreeBSD source (other *BSD src, other data, some binary
  systems may have limited or no access to upgrade binaries except
  at release upgrade.

  Such users might not be on this list, as this list is more for
  the FreeBSD patches than the programs as such. So ideally a CTM
  would have a format rev. no, & receivers would first be updated
  to dual capable auto detect of old & new format, then later senders
  would reduce length of CTM lines sent.


> Changing ctm_rmail to attempt to repair various mangling of the input
> is more difficult and unlikely to be worth the trouble.

Yes.	Quoted printable is evil.

Cheers,
Julian
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