* 0x0a is appended to attachments. pgnus 0.95 Bug?
@ 1999-07-29 13:02 Mike Fabian
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From: Mike Fabian @ 1999-07-29 13:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
When trying to send a *.tar.gz file as an attachment, it seems that
an additional 0x0a character is appended to the end of the file.
For testing I did send the speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz as an attachment to
my own address and used
`Gcc: nnfolder+archive:archive'
to get a copy in my archive. When the test mail returns to me and I
save the attachment to the file test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz, the file
seems to be corrupted:
~$ gzip --test --verbose test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz:
gzip: test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz: unexpected end of file
The original file was OK:
~$ gzip --test --verbose speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz: OK
comparing yields:
~$ cmp -l test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
cmp: EOF on speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
~$ ll test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Everyone 48086 Jul 29 13:34 speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 Everyone 48087 Jul 29 14:30 test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz
i.e. the received attachment is one byte longer than the original.
Looking at the two files with Emacs I find that the only difference is
the last byte of test4-speedbar-0.8.1.tar.gz which has the hex value
0x0a. After removing this byte diff says it's identical to the
original and I can gunzip it.
The copy of the mail which was Gcc'ed to my archive does not have the
problem of the extra 0x0a byte. When I save the attachment from this
copy, no 0xa is appended and the saved file is identical to the
original.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I am using
(version)
"GNU Emacs 20.3.11b.1 (i386-*-nt4.0.1381)
of Mon Jul 12 1999 on gridlock"
(gnus-version)
"Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95"
Mike
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