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Re: [patch] Removal of GIF support 25 years, 10 months

Jason R Mastaler

Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes: > Put bluntly, I don't think GIF support is worth risking our > collective asses over. I certainly won't risk mine over it, > and won't ask Jareth to risk his. There are plenty of image > formats; losing GIF support doesn't even make me blink. I agree that it's not worth any risk, but it does make me blink. What options are there? If we can't read, or decompress GIFs, how about on the fly conversion to another image format such as PNG?

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Re: [patch] Removal of GIF support 25 years, 10 months

SL Baur

Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > Of course, displaying them legally might be a problem without > GIFreader. ? They're in XPM format, what does GIFreader have to do with it? > Just bite the bullet and convert all .Z stuff to PNG. Hmm, what about > all of the tar files? What about them?

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Re: Using VM on W95 25 years, 10 months

Greg Klanderman

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert(a)ms.com> writes: Colin> Colin> Andy Piper writes: >> At 14:29 22/07/98 +0200, Robert Pluim wrote: Colin> >>> does anyone successfully use VM currently on W95/NT? I'm looking to switch >>> from Eudora to a real MUA, and I was wondering about the following: Colin> andy> As a followup is it possible to use gnus and vm for mail reading? For andy> instance I might want to read xemacs-beta in a newsy sort of way and the andy> rest of my mail using vm. Colin> Colin> I would use procmail to split the incoming mail into a Gnus spool and Colin> a VM spool, and then tell each of them where to look. that's exactly what i've been doing for about 3 years and i highly recommend it. i have gnus further split into xemacs-*, various work-related lists, and spam. now if the question was "on W95/NT?", that i can't answer, but it would be nice to know... greg

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Re: [patch] Removal of GIF support 25 years, 10 months

Oliver Graf

Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes: > sb> On a similar vein, since it isn't GIF format that's the problem -- it's > sb> the patented LZW compression algorithm, the .Z photo files probably > sb> ought to be converted to .gz (or better to PNG) as well. > > Just bite the bullet and convert all .Z stuff to PNG. Hmm, what about > all of the tar files? gz is ok, Z is not. Uses a different algorithm. Regards, Oliver.

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someone please verify leak in file_name_completion 25 years, 10 months

Greg Klanderman

Hello, Can someone look at file_name_completion and file_name_completion_unwind in dired.c and tell me if the following conclusion is correct: - file_name_completion allocates a cons with noseeum_cons() - if no error occurs, the cons' car is reset to Qnil - we unwind and file_name_completion_unwind is called. the car is Qnil so we return and the cons is never freed. (I'm assuming that noseeum_cons are not GC'd) this means we leak a cons on every file completion. maybe no big deal but i'll fix it if someone verifies that i'm correct. greg

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Re: Using VM on W95 25 years, 10 months

Colin Rafferty

Andy Piper writes: > At 14:29 22/07/98 +0200, Robert Pluim wrote: >> does anyone successfully use VM currently on W95/NT? I'm looking to switch >> from Eudora to a real MUA, and I was wondering about the following: > As a followup is it possible to use gnus and vm for mail reading? For > instance I might want to read xemacs-beta in a newsy sort of way and the > rest of my mail using vm. I would use procmail to split the incoming mail into a Gnus spool and a VM spool, and then tell each of them where to look. Of course, if you POP it, then you would have a harder time (unless you could fetchmail it (into procmail)). > Or is this a dumb thing to do? Not neccessarily. I have thought about doing something like this myself. Of course, I could be dumb. -- Colin

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Re: Using VM on W95 25 years, 10 months

Didier Verna

Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes: > As a followup is it possible to use gnus and vm for mail reading? For > instance I might want to read xemacs-beta in a newsy sort of way and the > rest of my mail using vm. The problem is that there's no way to tell gnus *not* to erase /var/spool/mail/you when it retrieves mails. I don't know about vm. So the thing would be tricky: I think you'd be oblidged to always use Gnus to retrieve *all* mails, and tell it to store xemacs-beta mails in a special place, and the rest in a standard unix folder (using the nnfolder backend I believe). Then, you would tell vm to read mails from this particular folder fed by gnus. Wao. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C214 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 80 72 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19

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Re: Using VM on W95 25 years, 10 months

Andy Piper

At 14:29 22/07/98 +0200, Robert Pluim wrote: >does anyone successfully use VM currently on W95/NT? I'm looking to switch >from Eudora to a real MUA, and I was wondering about the following: As a followup is it possible to use gnus and vm for mail reading? For instance I might want to read xemacs-beta in a newsy sort of way and the rest of my mail using vm. Or is this a dumb thing to do? andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp

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Re: [patch] Removal of GIF support 25 years, 10 months

William M. Perry

Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr> writes: > SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: > > > Footnotes: > > [1] IANAL > > M-x (expand-jargon-atom-please "IANAL") => I Am Not A Lawyer -Bill P.

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Re: [patch] Removal of GIF support 25 years, 10 months

Raymond Toy

>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: sb> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: >> Put bluntly, I don't think GIF support is worth risking our >> collective asses over. sb> On a similar vein, since it isn't GIF format that's the problem -- it's sb> the patented LZW compression algorithm, the .Z photo files probably sb> ought to be converted to .gz (or better to PNG) as well. If you create the .Z files on, say, a Solaris box, wouldn't that be legally safe? Presumably Unisys has already made Sun pay up for compress. Of course, displaying them legally might be a problem without GIFreader. Just bite the bullet and convert all .Z stuff to PNG. Hmm, what about all of the tar files? Ray

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