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>>>>> Excerpts from mail: (01-Oct-98) Re: pgnus-0.33: multipart/mixed: usage of filename? by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

  Lars> Doing so would make sense, but if the file name characters are
  Lars> properly translated and quoted, wouldn't it be nice to have
  Lars> the full real names of the files available in the external
  Lars> viewer?

>>>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Edward J Sabol said:

  EJS> I would much rather have the real file name!

Well, rather than saving /etc/passwd in /tmp/emmXYZZY/passwd, saving
/etc/passwd in /tmp/emmXYZZY/%etc%passwd would also be a possibility.
Which is what Lars is suggesting, I think.  There's no security risk
and you get the absolute pathname information.

kai
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