tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (12/05/90)
In article <2196@tuvie.UUCP> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes: >Yes, we have the same problems. All the <ESC>s have been >stripped from the .doc files. > >Kirk, if you repost the .doc files, please choose a format that >is more robust against malicious mailers. Uuencoded compressed >tar-files maybe? Better yet, leave the @*&#$ escape codes out of the doc files in the first place!! Post raw *roff source if you want users to have fancy manpages -- otherwise give us straight text, not @*#$&@(#$& uuencoded compressed tar files in a SOURCE newsgroup!! -- I might have gone to West Point, but I was too / /\ Tom Neff proud to speak to a Congressman. -- Will Rogers /__/ \ tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM
kssingvo@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Singvogel) (12/05/90)
kirkenda@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes: >Here comes version 1.4 of Elvis, my vi clone. [..] Every *.doc-file, I've extracted, reported, that it is damaged; e.g. doc/ex.doc is 19002 (real length) and not 19254 bytes (checksum length) long. Are the checksums bad or the files? Has anybody the same problems? Thanks, Klaus. -- Name : Klaus Singvogel E-Mail: kssingvo@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) (12/06/90)
kssingvo@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Singvogel) writes: >Every *.doc-file, I've extracted, reported, that it is damaged; e.g. >doc/ex.doc is 19002 (real length) and not 19254 bytes (checksum length) long. >Are the checksums bad or the files? Has anybody the same problems? Yes, we have the same problems. All the <ESC>s have been stripped from the .doc files. Kirk, if you repost the .doc files, please choose a format that is more robust against malicious mailers. Uuencoded compressed tar-files maybe? -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technical University Vienna | as evolution | | | | | Dept. for Real-Time Systems | in action! | | __/ | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | Tony Rand |
jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) (12/06/90)
kssingvo@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Singvogel) writes: >Every *.doc-file, I've extracted, reported, that it is damaged; e.g. >doc/ex.doc is 19002 (real length) and not 19254 bytes (checksum length) long. >Are the checksums bad or the files? Has anybody the same problems? The doc files contained Epson control sequences to switch font once in a while. Those are exactly the characters stripped by the mailer. Fixing the files is not evident, since commands like: sed 's#E\(.*\)F#\1#' doc_file will also match proper text. I think the best thing to do is to repost the documentation. Jan van der Steen -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands