From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Saving attachments with a leading dot
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:31:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oewfepov.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m365jcl1r0.fsf@defun.localdomain>
Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Gnus doesn't extract attachments
>> automatically, does it?
>
> It _can_ do that (depending on you settings), but in that case it
> doesn't use the filename parameter.
`X u' and friends does use the filename parameter, and doesn't prompt
for anything.
> The question isn't really whether Gnus should change certain
> `filename' parameters. It already does this (the directory part of
> the parameter is always stripped), and rightly so.
>
> It's more a question of how _much_ defensive programming we should do.
I think translating leading dots into "_" would be a good idea.
> Lots and lots of flawed shell scripts don't handle embedded newlines
> correctly, so I think it makes sense to acknowledge that fact --
> especially because there's very little legitimate use for file names
> with control characters.
The same can be said for file names with spaces in them, which are
perfectly normal (and legitimate).
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 23:39 Jesper Harder
2003-09-24 10:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-25 3:24 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-25 4:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-25 5:49 ` Jochen Küpper
2003-09-29 3:28 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-02 18:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-02 19:56 ` Jochen Küpper
2003-10-03 1:35 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-03 14:04 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-10-02 18:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 13:53 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 14:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 15:11 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 16:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 16:16 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-24 17:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-09-24 15:48 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-24 16:11 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-09-25 14:40 ` Reiner Steib
2003-09-25 3:23 ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-25 8:44 ` Hanak David
2003-09-29 3:20 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-17 17:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-10-18 16:43 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 16:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-10-18 20:04 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-18 23:17 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-19 11:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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