[comp.emacs] Gnu undigest.el problems.

dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) (02/25/88)

Here's a copy of mail I sent to the na-net mailing list. Anybody know
what the "real" digest standard is?




From roberts@studguppy.LANL.GOV Wed Feb 24 11:24:20 1988
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 11:21:22 MST
From: roberts@studguppy.LANL.GOV (Doug Roberts @ Los Alamos National Laboratory)
To: nanet@patience.Stanford.EDU
Cc: dzzr@LANL.GOV
Subject: Udigestify problems.



My mailer has had some problems undigestifying na-net digests, so I
decided to compare a na-net digest with a sun-spots digest to identify
the differences. I have no idea which one, if either, digest format is
correct, but my mailer can handle the sun-spots digests and not the
na-net ones.

In comparing the two digests, I found the following differences:

	1. The na-ne digest did not have the strings
		End of NA Digest
		****************
	   at the end of the message.

	2. The separator between the first message in the na-net
digest and all subsequent messages was a string of 24 "-" charactors
instead of 55 "-" charactors as in the sun-spots digest.

	3. The separator between all subsequent messages after the
first na-net message is a string of 24 "-" characters instead of 30
"-" characters as in the sun-spots digest.

I present these differences for your information only, since I have no
idea which (if either) digest is in a "standard" format.

--Doug


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Douglas Roberts
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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dzzr@lanl.gov
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