mangled messages (was: Unpaking Tuple)

[Tim Chase]

On 10/09/12 02:22, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>>> in 682592 20121008 232126 "Prasad, Ramit" wrote:
> [snip mess]
>>> How does one unpack this post?  ;-)
>>
>> Since that's not the way it arrived here, i have to ask, how do you
>> get these posts?
> 
> I see a carriage return rendered as ^M at the end of every line from
> Prasad's messages. Other than that, they are well-formatted plain text
> for me, too.
> 
> I guess Prasad's system sends \r\n instead of \n\r (the DOS line-end)
> and \r\n gets interpreted as a stray \r followed by end-of-line.

Prasad's system is correctly sending the "right" order (DOS
line-ends are CR+LF = \r\n, not the other way around).  However, it
might be that there is no CR+LF on the last line, or that one line
is missing the CR, so your viewer heuristic (vim does this) thinks
it has Unix NL-only line-endings and shows the ^M on all the lines
that have the CR.  All for one stray line without.

Prasad's email came through cleanly here (gmane + Thunderbird).

-tkc