No deltas via email anymore?
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen at missouri.edu
Thu Jan 21 01:32:04 UTC 2010
Stephen McKay wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20th January 2010, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
>> Stephen McKay wrote:
>>
>>> It would be trivial to change ctm_smail to send lines of 72 characters.
>>> It would reduce the encoding efficiency slightly, but not enough to
>>> worry about. It is not worth making it optional. I'll probably do
>>> this when I get a moment.
>>
>> This looks very easy to implement, namely change the line
>> #define LINE_LENGTH 76
>> in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm_smail
>
> Yes. Multiples of 4 only.
>
>> So, would there be a problem with making this start right now?
>> (Remember I make the deltas, so I can make this happen anytime.)
>
> Righto. I've changed my local copy from 76 to 72 and did a small test
> run. Works for me. I'll update the official source when I get a chance.
>
> A cautious person would do their own test run, of course. :-)
I have made the change. The next ctm generation starts 10pm CST. Can
people tell me if there are problems? I must admit to not being
cautious, but the worst that will happen is that people will need to
download those deltas from the ftp sites.
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