From: Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: More On Mime
Date: 12 Feb 1998 18:14:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u67mkxnd5.fsf@geoworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "12 Feb 1998 08:54:47 +0100"
Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> >>>>> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>:
>
> > Yup. I did some timing of this (wrt base64 decoding) in tm when
> > we were first integrating it with XEmacs. It wasn't so much that
> > large attachments were slow to decode, but that funneling things
> > through mmencode was *much* faster.
>
> How well does running things through external programs work on
> MSWin?
Yes, if properly set up. Evidence: movemail.exe in the standard emacs
distrib; reports of people getting tm up and running by hacking new
versions of all the sh scripts and executables it comes with.
But a large chunk of the mail on the NTEmacs list is people having one
problem or another with shelling to external programs. They have a
cmdproxy.exe that attempts to translate unix style command lines to NT
(e.g. "/bin/sh -c lpr" -> "cmd.exe /c lpr") -- so unix elisp code
still works. It causes people grief sometimes.
I use NT Emacs. I'd personally like (at least the option of) an elisp
only solution. Unix<->Win32 portability is assured that way. I don't
get enough attachments to make performance a big issue.
If size thresholds are implemented, setting them very high or to a
magic value (nil) would work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-13 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-10 19:56 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-11 9:10 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-11 13:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-11 20:21 ` François Pinard
1998-02-11 21:29 ` SL Baur
1998-02-12 7:54 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-12 8:13 ` SL Baur
1998-02-13 2:14 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
1998-02-13 11:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-13 12:15 ` SL Baur
1998-02-13 16:04 ` William M. Perry
1998-02-13 17:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-13 23:45 ` SL Baur
1998-02-11 10:05 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-11 13:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-11 13:57 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-02-13 11:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-11 17:48 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-02-12 10:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-12 20:18 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-02-11 20:31 ` François Pinard
1998-02-13 11:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-12 10:25 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-13 11:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-12 21:12 ` Justin Sheehy
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