[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add to FAQ usage of image formats (other than GIF)

[Måns Rullgård]

Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:49:27PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi
>> >
>> >On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:46:20PM +0200, V?ctor Paesa wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>I entered that as FAQ#1.3, because FAQ#1.2 was referring to JPEG
>> >>usage. I felt that was the most logical position, instead of
>> >>appending it.
>> >>
>> >>Patch attached.
>> >
>> >looks ok
>> >assuming the heads of the ministry of english composition have no
>> >objections
>> 
>> I suspect that I'm not part of that reference, but for the record, the
>> only problems I see with the patch are two of what I think are called
>> comma splices. As problems go, they are minor enough to not really
>> bother me, and the fact that the patch wasn't readily quotable (because
>> Mozilla Mail doesn't recognize ".patch" as being a text file) collides
>
> IMO the problem is that the sender used application/octet-stream
> instead of text/plain for the content-type.

Using a content type of text/x-patch is even better.  Then Gnus will
display the patch with proper syntax highlighting.

> Not the file suffix. Of course a good mailer (mutt) lets you change
> the content-type temporarily for viewing/replying.

Of course.

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