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[Xen-devel] Please Stop with the application/octet-stream attachments (w

To: "Santos, Jose Renato G" <joserenato.santos@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Please Stop with the application/octet-stream attachments (was Re: [PATCH] Xenoprof latest version.)
From: Sean Dague <sean@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 08:27:15 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:16:05PM -0800, Santos, Jose Renato G wrote:
> 
>   Ian, Keir
> 
>   Now that Xen 3.0 was released and moved into a separate testing tree,
> it seems a good time to include Xenoprof patches into the public
> xen-unstable tree. What do you think?
> 
>   I am attaching the last version of the patches. There are 3 patches
> attached:

There are a lot of offenders here, so I'm not trying to single you out, but
too many windows programs are setting all the patch attachments as
application/octet-stream, which means it breaks inline reading for clients
(this is really annoying).

I found the following on the Wine website that might help:
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/winedev-guide/style-notes

Specifically:

"Outlook Express is notorious for mangling attachments. Giving the patch a
.txt  extension and attaching will solve the problem for most mailers
including Outlook."

and

"Using regedit add key "Content Type" with value "text/plain" to the .diff
extension under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (same as for .txt  extension). This tells
OE to use Content-Type: text/plain instead of application/octet-stream"

Hopefully these will work, I don't run windows so I can't test them.

        -Sean

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