[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] add support for sgi files to mencoder

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Sun Mar 2 20:41:07 CET 2003


On Sunday, 02 March 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:11:13PM +0000, Todd Kirby wrote:
[...]
> > Ok, I thought I read somewhere patches had to be base64.
> 
> Base64 mime encoded is good, yes. But what you sent was a text/plain
> attachment that had been run through some silly external base64
> program, and most likely no one knows how to extract it without
> further instructions. In the future, if you want to send stuff as
> base64, do so on your mailer's mime settings.

Changing Content-Transfer-Encoding from 7BIT to Base64 for that attachment
was sufficient to reveal its contents in mutt.

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