On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > [-- Attachment #2: fileread.patch --]
> > [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: quoted-printable,
> > Size: 1.3K --]
> >
> > Sorry, guys -- pleeeeeeeeeeeeze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Can you try to configure your MUA's to tag patches (like these) as
> > "text/plain" instead of "application/octet-stream"? It makes life *MUCH*
> > easier for me & others, because we don't need an intermediate "save & run"
> > step to invoke an editor on the patch.
> >
> > Attachment: YES. But "application/octet-stream": NO. (unless it's binary)
>
> Sorry about that. I'll do my best to correct this on my end. (I usually
> prefer to just inline the darned things to avoid these problems, but my UA
> is also bad about wrapping lines, which munges them even worse.)
You might be able to configure Windows to recognized ".patch" as text/plain.
You could also call the patches foo.patch.txt or something.
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
