From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 19 0:33:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0036F15609 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:33:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20203; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:02:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:02:23 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Julian Elischer Subject: RE: Exctracting stuff from PRs Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message