[kde-linux] Re: Request for multiple monitor xorg.conf files? - "jed.monitors.conf" (001/001)

[Duncan]

Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:09:23 -0700 as excerpted:

> Hi Duncan,
>    I received 5 files that look liike you were trying to send me the
> xorg.conf files but all  got was the strange text below.
> 
>    Sorry, but thanks a lot for trying.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
>> =ybegin line=128 size=188 name=jed.monitors.conf
>> }ПНЮУЩШJLwЩШУЮЩЬL43sОПШ

>> =yend size=188 crc32=27b260df

OK, the files seem to have gotten thru.  But they're yyencoded (yEnc), 
which is somewhat new (still about a decade old, tho, but that's new in 
terms of internet message encoding standards) and not something many mail 
clients probably understand, yet.  Looks like they came thru without the 
references headers that would have threaded them appropriately, too, so 
they each appear as a thread starter, tho with the same topic as the 
original, if the client is using the references header to thread as it 
should, and not the subject header, as for instance MSOE does (or at 
least did last I used it a decade ago, anyway).  I had wondered about 
that.

And I don't yet see the text post that should have accompanied them, 
describing them.

But the files did get posted as yenc so my experiment was successful, and 
I had already had my doubts about your ability to decode it if indeed it 
attached as yenc. I'll wait a bit more to see if the text post that 
should have accompanied them makes it, then repost the files as either 
uuencoded or identity/text (more or less copy/pasted as part of the 
message encoded, along with the description, if it doesn't make it by 
then.

BTW, what client do you use?  I see you have a gmail address, but do you 
use its webmail, or download to a local mail client?  I might as well 
start figuring out which clients can take yenc/yyencode now, and which 
can't.  I know you can't but don't know for sure what you're using.

BTW2, if you needed to, you could run those files thru a decoder 
manually.  uudeview (app-text/uudeview on gentoo) should work, as should 
yydecode (net-news/yydecode) and yencode (net-news/yencode).  You could 
feed it the raw mail files on the command line and it should decode the 
yyencoded files.  (There's a GUI front-ends for at least uudeview as 
well, controlled by USE=tk on gentoo.)  But that shouldn't be necessary 
as I can and will simply resend as the more common uuencoded format, or 
since it's text files anyway, simply paste them (haven't decided which), 
now that I finished playing with my new toy. =:^)

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