Mutt (on cygwin) and binary attachments

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Thu Sep 13 09:34:00 GMT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>


> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> (disclaimer: I don't use mutt)
>
> Ya, but linking with binmode.o doesn't solve the other problem -- that
> of config files with DOS line endings.
>
> It looks to me as if you just can't use the 'binmode.o/automode.o'
magic
> bullets.  It seems that the real fix is to go thru the code, and put
> O_BINARY or 'rb' in the correct places, and O_TEXT(?) or 'rt' in the
> correct places.  Yes?

Yes! I have maintained that by far and large this is the only solution
that *works*.

(Sorry for the outburst, I'll go hide now).

Rob


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