Re: preflight.sh: please review <VirusChecked>

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> From: "Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf" <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de>
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 02:46:53 +0100
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> looking forward the GNUstep article in the german C't magazine and the 
> echo it might have (lot's of newbees showing interest in GNUstep 
> hopefully) I decided to sit down and write (or better: compile) a 
> standalone script which checks your system for all the stuff required by 
> GNUstep.
>
> [...]
> 
> I called this script preflight.sh

Very nice. Thanks.


> Don't be afraid of the script. It doesn't write anything to your hard 
> disk.

Why should  we take your word?  Plain  wrong.  It does write  a lot of
temporary files on my hard disk!  If you lied in this second sentence,
perhaps you lied on the first and we should be very afraid of it!



> Content-Type: text/html; name="preflight.sh.tgz"
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="preflight.sh.tgz"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> =1F=8B=08=00=00=00=00=00=00=03=EC\{W=1B9=B2=9F=7F=DD=9FB=D3x=C6=90=C16=AF$g=
> `=9C]=E2=90=84=BB=0481;=C9=9C=E5=8Eiw=CBv'=EDno=AB=1B=F0$|=F7[U=92=FA=E5=B6=

Quoted-printable is not very nice.   It transmits three bytes per byte
(3/1) for all non printable bytes. It would be much better to transmit
in base64 (8/5).  This is not a text/html, so why do you specify a:

     Content-Type: text/html

It would be better to specify:

     Content-Type: application/x-tar-gz"


original size:                19936 Mar 10 06:26 preflight.sh.tar.gz
base64 encoded:               26954 Mar 10 06:34 preflight.sh.tar.gz.mm
quoted-printable encoded:     46280 Mar 10 06:25 preflight.sh.tar.gz.qp

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