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Re: DOS text file attachments.



Am 2008-02-07 00:14:02, schrieb Kyle Wheeler:
> What if the file had been left as-is, and the line endings had been 
> recognized as not needing conversion? The receiver would receive a 
> correctly encoded text/plain attachment, and when saving that 
> attachment to disk, his MUA would convert the line endings to whatever 
> the native scheme happened to be. There would be no extra lines, BUT 
> the file's status as a "DOS text" file would vanish the instant the 
> "DOS" was dropped from the label---there's no such thing as 
> "dostext/plain", after all.

What I have already seen was:   text/ms-dos

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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