Re: mysterious c0 80

Ken Hornstein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.nmh.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> So while I agree post would fail with this hypothetical dist(1) of a
>> message containing a NUL, it's not clear you could inc(1) such a
>> message in the first place.
>
>Today or historically?  Historically is a long time.

I can't say that I know every single line of nmh and MH code since the
dawn of time, but I've been in and out of it a lot.  The assumption that
you can represent email lines as C strings has been embedded in nmh and
MH for as long as I can tell.  Such emails don't work with nmh, and they
probably don't work well with other MUAs either.  Okay, fine, "don't
work" is a bit of an oversimplification; it seems like those lines will
be silently truncated at the NUL character, so they probably "work" fine
and you just don't notice the NULs.

--Ken
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