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From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: viewing `application/octet-stream' MIME parts
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:59:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty86mikm.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5xixrj1.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:50:58 +0200, Peter wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>>> Did you try it?  When I enter "pdftotext %s -", nothing happens
>> 
>> I just entered "evince" at the "Viewer:"-prompt and saw a PDF with
>> "Hello world!" in it in the Evince-window that opened.

> Indeed, but I wanted it inline as text ...

Ah, sorry, I missed the "in-line" part.

>> That would be nice. On the other hand, the sender _did_ say that this
>> was just some arbitrary octets...

> The sender just uses the "attach-file" function in his buggy MUA, and
> the MUA does it wrong... :(

Yeah, buggy programs suck.


  Best regards,

     Adam

-- 
 "You make a fair point. Knowing when not to say              Adam Sjøgren
  anything is not something the lazyweb had              asjo@koldfront.dk
  historically been good at."




  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-20 20:06 Peter Münster
2011-09-20 20:16 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-20 21:05   ` Peter Münster
2011-09-20 22:21     ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-21  7:50       ` Peter Münster
2011-09-21  7:59         ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2011-09-20 23:05 ` Katsumi Yamaoka

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