Re: [Pan-users] Re: Error saving large JPEG image

[Paul Crawford (at UoD)]

Per Hedeland wrote:
> The decode-for-viewing is in pan/usenet-utils/mime-utils.cc (relies
> heavily on gmime), decode-for-saving (or maybe it's actually
> decode-after-saving) seems to be in the uulib directory (driven by
> pan/tasks/decoder.cc).

Thanks, that is useful to know and I can take a look later.

Rhialto wrote:
> An easy check is to see if the line has the correct number of characters
> on it.
>
> In fact it may have one more: some versions of uuencode add an extra
> checksum character at the end of the line. But then it should match, of
> course.
>
> And fractional numbers of characters are not possible :)

Thanks. I had not clocked that it was UUencoded than yEnc.

I guess the whole newsgroup area is littered with half-baked 
applications that are not to one common standard (presuming that it 
could exist in the first place)!

Regards,
Paul