Subject: error in line count for Text/PLAIN attachment

From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:44:22 -0500 (CDT)

I just noticed that when I send a text attachment in pine, pine will (at
least sometimes) count the number of lines incorrectly.  I am using Pine
4.10 on a Sun computer running Solaris 2.6.

Here's an example.  I sent a 336-line text file called 'oz.lst' with the
comment "data file" and this is what appears in pine both for the Fcc'd
message and on the message received on the other end:

[ Part 2, "data file"  Text/PLAIN (Name: "oz.lst")  260 lines. ]

The file seems to have shrunk to 260 lines, but if I save the file, it is
identical to the one I transmitted (a full 336 lines).

I suggest that if Pine cannot count the lines accurately, it should not
present a line count.  It can really upset a user when they see that their
file shrank! (even though it didn't shrink).

Regards,

Mike

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From: Martin-Eric Racine <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 02:21:31 +0300

> 4.10 on a Sun computer running Solaris 2.6.

OK, so I wasn't dreaming this.  

We have the same problem, on MiNT.  Pine 3.96 handled attachments well,
but 4.10 produces buggy MIME encoding that results in corrupt files.

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From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:33:05 -0500 (CDT)

> but 4.10 produces buggy MIME encoding that results in corrupt files.

I just want to be sure I was clear:  The attachment was fine, it was not
corrupt.  I've personally never had a problem with an attachment.  The
problem for me was that pine stated the number of lines incorrectly.  The
attachment really had 336 lines and there was nothing wrong with it, but
pine told me that the attachment had 260 lines.

Mike

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