From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13946 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: More On Mime Date: 12 Feb 1998 18:14:14 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153220 12018 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:33:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA31526 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:18:23 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04492 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:16:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAN19654; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:53:00 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:15:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA16506 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:15:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13351 invoked by uid 504); 13 Feb 1998 02:14:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13348 invoked from network); 13 Feb 1998 02:14:52 -0000 Original-Received: from CAraptorUU.geoworks.com (208.232.87.36) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 1998 02:14:51 -0000 Original-Received: from maelstrom.geoworks.com by CAraptorUU.geoworks.com via smtpd (for claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) with SMTP; 13 Feb 1998 02:14:21 UT Original-Received: from fusion.geoworks.com (fusion.geoworks.com [198.211.200.200]) by maelstrom.geoworks.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05681; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:14:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from quark.geoworks.com (quark.geoworks.com [198.211.201.100]) by fusion.geoworks.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19413; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:14:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ULTRAMAN ([198.211.201.179]) by quark.geoworks.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA08187; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:14:15 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Steinar Bang In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "12 Feb 1998 08:54:47 +0100" Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13946 Steinar Bang writes: > >>>>> SL Baur : > > > 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.