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diff --git a/Porting/patching.pod b/Porting/patching.pod index 3849051d12..14b39e2087 100644 --- a/Porting/patching.pod +++ b/Porting/patching.pod @@ -272,11 +272,15 @@ This should work for most patches: =item Mailers Please, please, please (get the point? 8-) don't use a mailer that -word wraps your patch or that MIME encodes it. Both of these leave -the patch essentially worthless to the maintainer. +word wraps your patch. This leaves the patch essentially worthless +to the maintainers. -If you have no choice in mailers and no way to get your hands on a -better one there is, of course, a perl solution. Just do this: +Unfortunately many mailers word wrap the main text of messages, but +luckily you can usually send your patches as email attachments without +them getting "helpfully" word wrapped. + +If you have no choice in mailers and no way to get your hands on +a better one, there is, of course, a Perl solution. Just do this: perl -ne 'print pack("u*",$_)' patch > patch.uue |