Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thu July 8 2004 09:30, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 8 o'clock on Jul 8, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Does it matter? Do we cater to broken implementations with a max line
> > length?
>
> Depends on if you expect humans will ever need to edit these files by hand
> to solve some problem.  If they're human editable, they should be
> compatible with the "normal" text file conventions (can be made to fit in
> 80 column lines, provide for comments, etc.)

Lines starting with # are treated as comments.

As far as 80 columns go, KDE has been using a single-line-single-entry format 
for the last 7 years and I have never heard any complaint about people not 
being able to edit entries beyond 80 columns so I don't think this is an 
issue.

Cheers,
Waldo
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