From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36858 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Is QP bad for binary files? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:00:18 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172374 10818 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22197 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2001 23:00:47 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Jul 2001 23:00:47 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id BAA21610 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:00:20 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id BAA19202; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:00:19 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id BAA09360; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:00:18 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36858 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36858 Suppose I send a binary file as an attachment, and it is encoded in quoted-printable rather than base64. I'm thinking maybe strange things might happen to line endings in that file. For if I send it from a Unix system to a Windows system, \n can become \r\n on the way. Does this really happen? Can it really happen? If this really happens, then I think this would be a good reason to refrain from using QP for binary files. Gnus fairly often uses QP for PDF files. kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory