[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] forceable software volume control

[The Wanderer]

RC wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:17:50 -0500 The Wanderer
> <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> looking at the patch via less showed nothing out of the ordinary
> 
> Not odd.  Many text-handling programs try to be "helpful" by hiding
> those minor details.

Yes, but as I explained, less usually does *not* 'hide' such characters,
or what I think are such characters; I have many files whose 'line
breaks' are, when viewed in less, displayed as ^M characters. I had
thought that ^M was the carriage-return character, and I would have
expected that any file containing carriage-returns would be displayed
that same way.

> I would recomend nvi, which is dumb enough that it doesn't hide these
> problems.

Will consider, and thank you.

> I would imagine that everyone else's mail programs are doing the 
> coversion behind the scenes, so they don't have the problem.  I don't
> know why Moz and Sylpheed aren't, though.

I don't actually know if I'd *want* my mail reader to do such a
conversion automatically; when I pick "Save" on an attachment or the
like, I want to get an exact byte-for-byte duplicate of what was
attached on the other end. What bothers me is not having any way to tell
the difference between the two cases.

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