From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27511 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Johan Kullstam" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: v.98 pdf decoding broken? Date: 02 Dec 1999 00:09:25 -0500 Organization: none Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199911241446.PAA000.78@bonk.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164526 24970 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA10573 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 00:06:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAB02104; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:06:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 Dec 1999 23:06:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02966 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:06:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from kullstam.ne.mediaone.net (qmailr@kullstam.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.92.14]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10565 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 00:05:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 13393 invoked by uid 501); 2 Dec 1999 05:09:25 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "01 Dec 1999 21:42:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27511 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27511 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > uliw@erdw.ethz.ch writes: > > > I am unable to decode a properly encoded pdf attachment. The file is > > written to disk and loaded, but remains empty. > > Does this work better in Pterodactyl 0.99? while looking at the qp-or-uuencode choser back in 0.96 (or was it 0.97...), i noticed some bad behavior with .pdf files. it seems pdf are ascii but with a CR instead of LF or CF/LF to end the lines. (i think this is macintosh format as opposed to unix or ansi.) anyhow, the choser doesn't see enough non-printable stuff and uses quoted-printable format. the problem is that CR doesn't signify end-of-line to many of the tools and the QP can, therefore, have some extremely long lines. i've had the lines get broken and wrapped by my mail processing chain. i am not sure if it's gnus/emacs sending, my isp's sendmail, my fetchmail, my qmail, or gnus/emacs receiving the mail where it gets clobbered. somewhere there be dragons. has anyone else run across this? how should we handle ascii with long lines (very few LF chars)? should this be made uuencoded or perhaps there is some CR and LF stuff in QP to break the lines and reform them upon unquoting? -- J o h a n K u l l s t a m [kullstam@ne.mediaone.net] Don't Fear the Penguin!