From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:44:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:43:45 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:16914 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:43:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3A702D2A.5B4F97FD@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:42:02 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Phillips CC: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patches In-Reply-To: <200101250611.f0P6BI418581@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <3A702AC1.A077A105@innominate.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Phillips wrote: > Netscape is bad news for patches, both sending and receiving. On send > it wraps lines and doesn't let you see the wrapped version until after > it's sent - on receive it likes to convert tabs to spaces. Avoid. I use Netscape Mail all the time to send patches, and it works beautifully 95% of the time. If you attach the patch, Netscape detects it is text/plain and does not encode it. People who dislike MIME complain a bit, but at least you can see the patch and comment on it. And attaching the patch ensures that no editor mangling occurs. That said, every now and then, Netscape's text/plain autodetect will puke and eat an attached patch. But that happens so infrequently that the utility outweighs the pain. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/