ANNOUNCE: Version 3.20-1 released

Nick Phillips nwp at LEMON-COMPUTING.COM
Sat Jun 15 01:54:14 IST 2002


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:23:54PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:

> >I know nothing about TNEF expansion.  Which to you recommend...the old
> >external one or the CPAN one?
>
> Personally I'm sticking with the old one, as it seems to work okay.
> However, if you have a lot of Outlook users whose winmail.dat attachments
> (Microsoft Outlook Rich Text Format attachments) can't be expanded/decoded
> and scanned, then you *may* find the internal Perl module manages to decode
> more of them.
>
> So stick as you are unless you have a good reason to change.

<temptation>
Using the internal one might well increase performance, as there would be
one less process to start up.
</temptation>

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