From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 23 20:29:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B6B14C1F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:29:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA77378; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:30:48 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <8646.922191026@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:13:06 EST." Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:29:39 -0500 To: Sheldon Hearn From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Exctracting stuff from PRs Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:10 PM +0200 3/23/99, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:13:06 EST, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> When I went to use 'send-pr' for a problem, I was surprised that >> send-pr itself does not have a parameter for "sample file" or >> some-such. If it did, then you would have some control of what >> format that enclosure arrived in. > > It's easy to create your own template. From within the editor > invoked by send-pr, simply save a copy of the default file to > ~/.pr_template or whatever. > > Now use that file as a template when you start composing a new > message. I was thinking more of an -option for send-pr, such as any freebsd user could: send-pr -example badbug.c or send-pr -fix goodstuff.diff where send-pr would worry about encoding the files (BASE64?) and putting them into the message in some standard format which would be easy (well, "easier") to process on the receiving side. It might also do things like check the file size, and refuse absurdly large files. My intent was to give everyone a nice, standard, obvious way to include these kinds of files, so the receiving side could automatically "handle" them. Creating a new template for my own personal use isn't going to address Julian's original observation.. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message