Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Netscape is bad news for patches, both sending and receiving. On send
> it wraps lines and doesn't let you see the wrapped version until after
> it's sent - on receive it likes to convert tabs to spaces. Avoid.
I use Netscape Mail all the time to send patches, and it works
beautifully 95% of the time.
If you attach the patch, Netscape detects it is text/plain and does not
encode it. People who dislike MIME complain a bit, but at least you can
see the patch and comment on it. And attaching the patch ensures that
no editor mangling occurs.
That said, every now and then, Netscape's text/plain autodetect will
puke and eat an attached patch. But that happens so infrequently that
the utility outweighs the pain.
Jeff
--
Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of
Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns
MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie
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