From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 20:33:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D561560E for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:33:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA00148; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:03:00 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA80498; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:02:59 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990319150259.T429@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:02:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel References: <19990304130126.B441@lemis.com> <36DE0352.E99BCB70@eboa.com> <19990316174710.H429@lemis.com> <36EE54A4.8DC53017@eboa.com> <19990317093436.G429@lemis.com> <36EFC56A.ACBFB0A7@eboa.com> <19990318100818.L429@lemis.com> <36F13129.5341A849@eboa.com> <19990319103741.A429@lemis.com> <36F1D22C.EB31AD40@eboa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36F1D22C.EB31AD40@eboa.com>; from Roelof Osinga on Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 05:27:24AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 19 March 1999 at 5:27:24 +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>>> ... >>>> It's difficult to tell after what your mailer did with it. It looks >>>> OK to me the way I've reconstructed it, if that's correct. >>> >>> Haven't seen it yet. >> >> It's a couple of lines above. It was wrong, though: the last line >> should have been two: > > No, it wasn't. That was your reconstructed version of it. Have by > now seen, or re-seen actually, the message and it is perfect. Plain > ASCII, no funny word-wraps, no nothing. Hence, it must be you and/or > your reader. Sorry :). Nope, that's the way it arrived here. It's a fairly standard Netscape mutilation. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/email.html for more information. >>> The 4.5 release's reader does funny things previous releases didn't. >>> Especially with margin enforcement. >> >> Netscape is a web browser, not a mailer. It's almost impossible to >> produce good-looking messages with it. > > Mozilla is a web browser. Netscape Communicator is a mailer and a > newsreader. Well, sorta. It gets the job done. Besides, I don't need > good looking messages, I need *good* messages . But if you're into > that sort of thing it does come with a built in HTML designer for > mail messages ;). HTML and mail messages have nothing to do with each other. HTML is for web pages, not mail. >> One alternative, of course, is to move the entire directory which >> contains these corrupt entries to a subdirectory of lost+found. That >> way you won't get the space back (negligible loss), but you'll be able >> to use the file system. Not nice, but it'll do the trick. > > And you'll miss out on the experience of a life-time . Indeed. You're certainly better off learning to use fsdb. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message