Tim: >> What I saw was more than "8 characters", did you mean something else? g: > as i said, '8'. when prompted for entry, i entered 8 characters. Well, the sample you supplied was certainly more than 8 characters long. Prompted for entry into what? >> And it really should be MIME in this day and age > mime is a waste. No, not at all. With MIME you get information on content encoding and/or content type, identification of the different parts, etc. With other schemes you get random text you have to guess at. We've moved beyond the always-been-hopelessly-inadequate-from-the-start 7-bit text mail, years and years ago. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines