Re: Image handling in mutt

From	Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Image handling in mutt
Date	2023-12-11 15:50 +0100
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On 12/11/23 09:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2023-12-11 15:16:57 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> I do not care about the "microsoft world", and I doubt that this is
>>> required there at the low level (what would be the equivalent of the
>>> Linux kernel) [...]
>> This depends: the FAT file system (which still is the lowest common
>> denominator) actually reserves 8 chars for the file name and three
>> for the --ahem-- extension. The dot isn't encoded explicitly on-disk.
> This is unrelated to the OS. The FAT file system may be used also
> under Linux (e.g. because this is what some memory sticks have),
> and there are the same limitations.
>

So you are implying that you can discard file extensions with MS-DOS 6.22?

That is false, from before Win7 MS operating systems REQUIRED a file 
extension to determine file type.

Linux has no such requirement.

-- 
It's not easy to be me

Thread

Image handling in mutt Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-08 18:00 +0100
  Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-08 18:10 +0100
    Re: Image handling in mutt Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-08 22:50 +0100
      Re: Image handling in mutt David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2023-12-08 23:00 +0100
        Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-08 23:10 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-08 23:40 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-08 23:50 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:10 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-09 00:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:30 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:30 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-12-09 09:50 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2023-12-10 17:20 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-10 17:30 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-10 19:40 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-10 19:50 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-10 21:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-11 02:30 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-12-11 16:30 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-11 21:20 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 12:40 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 13:30 +0100
        Re: Image handling in mutt "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2023-12-11 14:10 +0100
      Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-10 21:10 +0100
        Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-10 22:00 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 13:20 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 13:40 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2023-12-11 13:50 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-11 14:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 15:10 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 15:40 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 16:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2023-12-11 19:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 23:10 +0100
                On file systems [was: Image handling in mutt] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-12 06:40 +0100
                Re: On file systems "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-12-12 11:50 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-12-11 13:50 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 15:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 15:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 15:40 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 15:50 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 15:50 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-11 16:00 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 16:10 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-11 17:10 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 16:10 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-11 16:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 16:30 +0100
  Re: Image handling in mutt Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 00:10 +0100
    Re: Image handling in mutt Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 01:20 +0100
    Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-11 16:30 +0100

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