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Article #270Re: mbox format problem
From: Kurt Hackenberg
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:31
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:31
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Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >A sensible format would use content-length... No, because content-length is number of bytes in the message body, which includes end-of-line characters and such, so it varies across systems. If you move the file from one system to another, it breaks. Usenet's Lines: would work, though. I've had an idea to use the dot-stuffing algorithm used by SMTP: a message is terminated by a line containing nothing but '.'; any such line in the message gets another '.' added at the front. A file would be multiple messages, each followed by a '.' line. It would do line boundaries in whatever way makes it a text file in the system where it's stored (so might have to be converted when moved to a different system).
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