Subject: File Encoding

From: [email-masked] (Steve Schneider / FogBottomPond)
Date: 23 Jul 1994 16:06:36 GMT

Hello... I've had a lot of complaints from people whom I send mail to via 
Pine (which I think is great but which the complainers don't have or 
don't use) when I ^R a *straight-text* file into a letter they can't read it.
Is there a fix for this other than waiting for 3.90? We're on 3.87 here 
and I've banged my head against a brick wall trying to get them to update 
to 3.89 even... Is it possible to run the complete Pine program from 
within an individuals home directory? If so, how difficult is it to do?

Thanks,
Steve...

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 16:52:18 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Steve Schneider / FogBottomPond) says:

>Pine ... when I ^R a *straight-text* file into a letter they can't read it.

    I don't think this is right -- I think you mean, when you ^J attach
a file it becomes unreadable.  Any ASCII-only file when read with ^R
should remain readable, however, if non-ASCII (8th-bit-set) characters
appear in the file, such as for non-English text, they will be converted
to quoted-printable encoding, which is not itself directly readable.

>Is it possible to run the complete Pine program from 

    Sure, it works with no problem.  If you have space to compile it,
and either alias the pine command to ~/pinewhatever/bin/pine, or put
that directory in your path before the system-wide pine, otherwise
you'd wind up running the system-wide version...  Usually Pine itself
will build with no problems at all.  Read the instructions that come
with it, and good luck.

Barry Bouwsma
<[email-masked]>

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 22:17:09 -0700 (PDT)

Actually, Pine 3.87 would trigger encoding if you ^R a file with DOS 
newlines.....

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