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icon4.gif   text display of ascii files not a good idea, posted by Heiko Scheit on Mon Aug 23 13:43:58 2004 
    icon4.gif   Re: text display of ascii files not a good idea, posted by T. Ribbrock on Tue Sep 7 13:05:49 2004 
       icon4.gif   Re: text display of ascii files not a good idea, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Sep 8 13:46:56 2004 
          icon4.gif   Re: text display of ascii files not a good idea, posted by Heiko Scheit on Wed Sep 8 23:35:01 2004 
             icon2.gif   Re: text display of ascii files not a good idea, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Sep 15 04:08:46 2004 
Message ID: 676     Entry time: Mon Aug 23 13:43:58 2004     Reply to this: 685
Icon: Warning  Author: Heiko Scheit  Author Email: h.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.de 
Category: Bug fix  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.5.4 
Subject: text display of ascii files not a good idea 
I think the text display of ASCII files, which is new in version
2.5.4, is not a good idea.  E.g. I had a large ps file attached
to one entry and it took a long time display this entry (over DSL).
Then I saw that the ps-file is displayed as text, which is not really 
useful.  

Probably it is fine to display only files ending in '.txt' per default.
In addition a file that has more than say 1000 lines should probably 
also not be displayed (as default, optional OK).  

Cheers, Heiko
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