We should update the man page with description on different mangling methods. Simo.
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 23:44, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that the code (at least for mangling method = hash2) does > different things to what the man pages claim. > > Man pages say that if the file starts with a leading ., it is replaced > with three underscores. Either Ethereal can't count, or they are not. Only > one is placed there. In addition, it seems that more characters than a > leading . (dot) are replaced by a single underscore. For example, the # > character (known as pound or hash) is also replaced by a single > underscore. > > Secondly, the man pages claim that the first three characters of the > extension (after the right most period) are forced to upper case etc. What > it omits to say is that this only true if the extension consists of three > or less characters. If there are more than five characters in the > extension, well, they get lost. > > Which of these two behaviours is the intended one? > > Regards > ----- > Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Simo Sorce - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xsec s.r.l. via Durando 10 Ed. G - 20158 - Milano tel. +39 02 2399 7130 - fax: +39 02 700 442 399
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