On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Simo Sorce wrote: > We should update the man page with description on different mangling > methods. Simo.
Well, we should, but the fact that any extension longer than 3 characters is removed entirely seems counter intuitive. That decision should be revisited, I think. > 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. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
