Hello and greetings Stephen.
Stephen Isard wrote in
<[email protected]>:
|If I send myself a linux style text file abc.txt, with just \n line
|separators, and then I detach abc.txt from the message using the command
|
|w /dev/null
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|which writes separate files for the body and attachments, the lines in
|the newly detached version of abc.txt are separated in Microsoft style
|with \r\n. Is there a reason for that and is there some variable I can
|set to prevent it happening?
I cannot reproduce this with v14.9.25.
v14.9.25 brought a change in that DOS line endings are preserved
when saving attachments (it was
commit 74e3b999731224312abdb33f7d3c34f704d79a98
CommitDate: 2022-10-05 16:28:09 +0200
...
This is only about saving by the receiver, we did keep CRLF in the
data correctly, as required by the standard. (But it is a mess!)
), but in no way should we turn \n to \r\n.
That is to say, in a POSIX environment.
The software is currently not capable to live in other
environments, which includes EBCDIC incompatibility.
I would not know how this comes?
--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
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|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
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