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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2019 22:18:15 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep for ascii nul
Message-ID:  <20191101221815.a19d7dd8.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4b2158d3-4bc4-63d5-9d8b-8801f4588da4@panix.com>
References:  <20191101024817.GA60134@admin.sibptus.ru> <558fd145-ad3e-90dc-5930-c01ca0c27d3c@panix.com> <61f96c80-7965-9c80-30dc-b153e418b668@panix.com> <20191101104917.e49c518e.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.21.99999.352.1911011057490.19545@enterprise.ximalas.info> <20191101112030.4e4f09f3.freebsd@edvax.de> <4b2158d3-4bc4-63d5-9d8b-8801f4588da4@panix.com>

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On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 13:27:08 -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On 2019-11-01 06:20, Polytropon wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if the declaration "text/x-csrc" is processed
> > by the mailing list as regular text attachment, but as
> > you said, "text/plain" should work. Stripping non-text
> > attachments (especially binary ones, like images) has
> > been common practice on this list for years, probably
> > for decades now.
> 
> Sure enough, my mail reader (Thunderbird) generates a C source 
> attachment as text/x-csrc. I didn't know that type existed. Obviously 
> it's non-standard.

Sylpheed does the same, for example "text/x-sh" for a shell
script. Maybe it's a "not so well known standard"? ;-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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