7z binary files

[Eugeny Sattler]

Ernesto,

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as your www4mail user, I am facing problems with 7z binary files
7zip is a new freeware archiver with very good compression ratio.
As 7z is rather new filetype, probably no HTTP Content-type was created yet
(like application/zip or aplication/x-zip-compressed for zipped files)
So, boix@... treats 7z files as plain text files (this should be no problem
for user as it consumes less quota :-/) and mangles them (this is already a
PROBLEM)

Example
I tried http://www.zipsites.ru/computers/sovety/sovety.7z (a set of PC
tricks in russian language)
Online file headers check shows that this file is 124779 byte long
File downloaded via boix@.. came 125269 bytes long.
Why?

Finally, I could solve the problem ordering the file with XUUENCODE option.

--
Eugeny

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