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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:18:44 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: sbrk() storing the size of memory blocks
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> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:07:45 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > With Pine, it's best to include the text in the body, with the Ctrl-R
> > command.  Pine automatically does TRT with end-of-line conversions.
> 
> But it breaks lines automatically on Ctrl-R, and for a patch file, that
> can easily render it unusable.

I'd expect someone who sends a patch for a file that includes
non-printable characters to know that.  These cases are very rare, and
hardly justify the MIME nuisance.

> Not even to mention that it's a bit hard to send two patches in one mail
> without patch mixing them together if both are included in the main
> text.

I think Patch is perfectly able to handle this.

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