[pmmail-list] PMMAIL 2.20.2380 file corruption (forwards with attachments)

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Carl Gehr schrieb:
> 
> Lueko.Willms@t-online.de wrote:
 
  on creating a file copy of the attachment: 

> >  This is unavoidable if you want to view or process the 
> > attachment.  
> 
> WHY is is 'unavoidable?'  I see no reason why these 
> 'named' files even need to be created.  

  I see only one way to avoid this: That the MIME-Unpack process writes 
into a pipe and the receiving program is able to read from standard 
input which is redirected to this pipe, like in a  

   MUNPACK.EXE abcdefg.MSG | PMVIEW.EXE 

  I doubt that e.g. PMView is able to read an image form standard 
input. Other programs might also not be able to do it but require a 
filename as parameter to process the contents of that file.  

  Under Windows I use UltraEdit for editing and viewing text; Ultraedit 
is capable of processing very large files which are (as far as I know) 
not read into memory completely, but only read from the actual disk 
file; so it needs a disk file for this.  

  So I see a lot of trouble coming up if this way is chosen. It would 
probably be better than creating files and handing these files over to 
the processor, I agree with you about that, but I fear it will 
seriously limit the choice of possible programs.  

  And the solution should work on both OS/2 and Windows. 

Yours, 
L.Willms