Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:02:23 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Exctracting stuff from PRs Message-ID: <XFMail.990319190223.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990318235823.2175A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On 19-Mar-99 Julian Elischer wrote:
> If we could get teh PR gatabase to send these mailing back out as mail
> again we'd be able to extract the file susing mail agents, however
> the only this we can do is run edit-pr and the web interface.
> neither of which knows how to handle MIME enclosures.
>
> How do other people cope with this?
>
> For a trivial example.. see misc/8139. this has submissions in the audit
> trail, with the headers
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> so there are funny things in the source like
> "if [ "${1}X" =3D "X" ]"
> but one could extract it buy hand and edit it correct.
> But I've seen people submitting them with 'Base64'
> and other similar unreadable encodings.
You could try getting your mail reader to process it.. I haven't tried, but it
should deal with the MIME'ness of message in question.
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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