Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:36:18 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: "ctm-users@freebsd.org" <ctm-users@freebsd.org>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, "Albsmeier, Andre" <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com>, Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: No deltas via email anymore? Message-ID: <20100121103618.GA25915@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <4B57AE8C.4070003@missouri.edu> References: <201001201203.o0KC3r5E036646@fire.js.berklix.net> <201001202351.o0KNpsh3006649@dungeon.home> <4B579F5E.7070801@missouri.edu> <201001210118.o0L1IElB007517@dungeon.home> <4B57AE8C.4070003@missouri.edu>
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On Thu, 21-Jan-2010 at 02:31:56 +0100, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Stephen McKay wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20th January 2010, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > >> Stephen McKay wrote: > >> > >>> It would be trivial to change ctm_smail to send lines of 72 characters. > >>> It would reduce the encoding efficiency slightly, but not enough to > >>> worry about. It is not worth making it optional. I'll probably do > >>> this when I get a moment. > >> > >> This looks very easy to implement, namely change the line > >> #define LINE_LENGTH 76 > >> in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm_smail > > > > Yes. Multiples of 4 only. > > > >> So, would there be a problem with making this start right now? > >> (Remember I make the deltas, so I can make this happen anytime.) > > > > Righto. I've changed my local copy from 76 to 72 and did a small test > > run. Works for me. I'll update the official source when I get a chance. > > > > A cautious person would do their own test run, of course. :-) > > I have made the change. The next ctm generation starts 10pm CST. Can > people tell me if there are problems? I must admit to not being > cautious, but the worst that will happen is that people will need to > download those deltas from the ftp sites. src-7.0897.gz came in here at 7:48 UTC. It was of course, according to the headers, still converted to quoted-printable but, since there were never any 8bit chars and the line length was 72, no conversion was actually done. I could directly feed it to ctm_rmail and all went fine ;-). Let's see how things develop with further deltas but, if those M$ morons don't play with there knobs again, things should be fine. Thanks a lot, -Andre
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