Re: [patch] kernel API documentation system
Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:27:02 -0700
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:00:55PM -0400, Nat Lanza wrote:
> Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> writes:
> > Well this makes it impossible to look at your patch, try using a sane
> > encoding format such as uuencoding or plain ascii.
>
> Oh, come on. MIME is extremely common these days. The fact that you
> use an antiquated mailreader which doesn't understand it is hardly
> Jeff's fault. I could understand a complaint of "not everyone can read
> MIME, could you repost a uuencoded version?", but your complaint is
> abrasive enough to be unreasonable.
I'll cast my vote for ascii or uuencode. Microsoft Windows is extremely
common as well - that doesn't mean we should use that, does it?
I can understand using an encoding scheme for graphics, but I'm really not
thrilled about using an encoding for text. Neither is Linus, by the way.
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