Attached DOS text files being converted to Unix text format

[Damián Rodrí­guez Sánchez]

Well, it seems that this is normal behaviour. I opened attached text 
files on several computers (windows and linux) and in all cases the 
files were converted to the native text file format when they were 
saved: unix text format on  linux, and dos text format on windows.

Is this common knowledge? I've been working with computers all my life 
and just now I realise this. Can anyone send himself dos and unix text 
files and confirm this for me? I don't know, maybe I'm just going crazy 
here..



Damián Rodrí­guez Sánchez escreveu:
> Michael Schwendt escreveu:
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:06:50 -0300, Damián wrote:
>>
>>> I've already sent this to a Mozilla Thunderbird list but received no 
>>> answer yet.
>>>
>>> All e-mails I receive containing DOS text files are being converted 
>>> to Unix text files when I save them. Unix text files are not changed. 
>>> Other file formats are also not affected (zip, exe, doc, etc). I'm 
>>> not sure if this is a Thunderbird problem. I'm running Thunderbird on 
>>> FC9. Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> Tell a bit more about what encoding is used for the attachments.
>>
> 
> I had a look at my Sent file and what I can tell you is that text 
> attachments show this:
> 
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> while other formats (doc, zip,...) show this:
> 
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> 
>