grep for ascii nul

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Nov 1 21:18:31 UTC 2019


On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 13:27:08 -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On 2019-11-01 06:20, Polytropon wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if the declaration "text/x-csrc" is processed
> > by the mailing list as regular text attachment, but as
> > you said, "text/plain" should work. Stripping non-text
> > attachments (especially binary ones, like images) has
> > been common practice on this list for years, probably
> > for decades now.
> 
> Sure enough, my mail reader (Thunderbird) generates a C source 
> attachment as text/x-csrc. I didn't know that type existed. Obviously 
> it's non-standard.

Sylpheed does the same, for example "text/x-sh" for a shell
script. Maybe it's a "not so well known standard"? ;-)


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