Re: pc-elm sending binary files with Lines: 0

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <829808113snx@holly.demon.co.uk>, Mark Rogers
<mcr@holly.demon.co.uk> writes
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>Maybe someone can confirm this, as I am only seeing things from the 
>receiver's point of view; someone just sent me a binary file MIME encoded 
>by (I believe) Demon's pc-elm. It had a "Lines: 0" header line which was 
>obviously not true. Note that there was no text *other than* the encoded 
>binary.

Lines:  is a strange header for a mail message. It has no defined
meaning, so it is impossible to say whether it was right or wrong.

It might be best not to generate it.

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