Bug In MIME.EXE With NULL's?

[Joseph Huber_1 · Accepted solution]

If a file may contain "unprintable" characters,
then use Quoted-Printable encoding (why else do You want MIME encode ?):

MIME> add/text/encode=Quoted file

or add a line for the file-extension in
SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]MIME$FILETYPES.DAT
specifying
thistyp, text/plain, Quoted-Printable

so that a simple ADD does it for *.thistyp .

[Joseph Huber_1]

is NULL binary ?

Every thing in memory (or a file) is binary.
The question here is, TEXT in mail should be
ASCII codes 32-126 only, everything else should be quoted.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Nice Joseph. It works on 1.7.

WIm

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

MIME$FILETYPES.DAT must be modified after each upgrade ! I would go for the /enc.

Wim

[Robert Atkinson]

Joseph, likewise, that works perfectly here too.

Many thanks for your help.

Rob.

[Joseph Huber_1]

Wim, are You sure ?
Even if it is replaced by VMS upgrades, don't You have, as a system manager, a separate directory, where all the customized files live ? :-)

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

It's documented. They say that the file is only replaced when it is modified by HP. Otherwise the file is not in the upgrade kit. So you must re-apply the change (or the next system manager will post the same question over here).

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Be aware of the side effects.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1036127

Wim