Re: [slrn] Now Finicky About X-Face Headers?

Peter J Ross wrote:
In news.software.readers on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:21:19 -0700, Blinky
the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter J Ross wrote:

In news.software.readers on 13 Sep 2007 18:13:09 GMT, Blinky the
Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter J Ross wrote:
In news.software.readers on 12 Sep 2007 00:42:42 GMT, Blinky the
Shark
<no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's a screen cap it this "header fold" warning. There's
something odd about it.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/fold_warning.jpg

Aha!

<http://slrn.cvs.sourceforge.net/slrn/slrn/src/mime.c?view=markup>

See lines 1054 to 1069 for the source of your problem.

A very dirty fix, assuming you're compiling from source, might be
to

I really thought that once successfully compiled, I'd be done with
compiling.

Hell, doesn't your piscine eye gleam at the thought of being a
fully-empowered user of Free Software who can modify the source
yourself?

No. I'd rather not have to fix it at all, actually.

My inferior mammalian eye certainly did.

I can hear the distant sound of RTS applauding.

Er... that was meant to be "RMS" (Richard M Stallman), not "RTS"
(Richard [Bullis] The Stupid). Sorry.

I didn't really see the connection between context and RTS, but I went
with the flow. :)

The point was that this is Free/Libre Open Source Software, so we can
fix it ourselves if we want to. If XNews or Dialog had the same
problem we'd have to wait for Luu or Marcus.

And my point was that while that's very nice, I'd rather it not been
hosed in the first place.

<...>

Your X-Face contains a long string with no white space, and
therefore

That's what they're like, yeah. If there's white space, they
break.

Hmm. This is not good news for those of us who want a usable slrn
1.0 soon. There are too many X-Face users for slrn to ignore.

One would think so. One would be proven wrong.

Fortunately, TW has kindly provided a patch.

It didn't work, and neither did the other (Ben's?) one. But the
couple-line addition of code Thomas provided for manual insertion did.
See headers; I'm back to pl2 and have dutifully commented out my charset
and mime_charset commands.


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