Re: NULs in drafts

Hi Michael,

> I wound up writing a "findnull.c" code because grep'ing for NUL
> apparently won't work due to C-issues.  SED can do things, but
> I couldn't get it to work.

perl avoids C's strings.  sed does too for its input.

    $ dc -e 16i616263006465660A414243014445460AP | hd
    00000000  61 62 63 00 64 65 66 0a  41 42 43 01 44 45 46 0a  |abc.def.ABC.DEF.|
    00000010
    $ dc -e 16i616263006465660A414243014445460AP | LC_ALL=C perl -ne '/\x00/ and print' | sed -n l
    abc\000def$
    $ dc -e 16i616263006465660A414243014445460AP | LC_ALL=C perl -ne '/\x01/ and print' | sed -n l
    ABC\001DEF$
    $

Having read the thread, though only once, I'm confused by:

- how many versions of nmh there are — distro, Emacs, and personal;
- what ones introduce NULs;
- if changing the length of the --- header/body separator alters the
  number of NULs.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.