cygcheck.out vs. cygcheck.txt (Was Re: Solved partially by findutils 4.3 - RE: "inode changed", "replaced while being copied")

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Jan Schormann on 1/18/2006 6:48 AM:
>
> > New cygcheck.out to show the current config.
>
> Can you convince your mailer to attach text files with a MIME type of
> text, rather than application/octet-stream?  It makes it easier for me to
> read if the attachment displays inline in my mailreader, rather than me
> having to save it off to disk and open an external editor.  [Aside - maybe
> the help instructions should recommend naming the file cygcheck.txt, as
> some mailers use the file extension to choose the MIME type, and .out
> typically implies binary, as in a.out.]

If you recall, we used to have "cygcheck.txt" in the instructions at some
point, and some brainless mailers (which I won't name) included those
inline, rather than as attachments.  However, considering that the list
archive software sometimes displays real text attachments inline anyway,
maybe it is worth changing the name back to "cygcheck.txt"...

FWIW, the archives do display "cygcheck.out" as text
(<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00798/cygcheck.out>).
	Igor
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