[flalug] munpack vs spaces

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 00:41:32 EDT


Whever I read news (I do so with trn) and decode a binary with munpack 1.5
and there's a space in the filename, munpack chokes and transforms them
like so:

name with spaces.001 -> name
name with spaces.002 -> name.1
name with spaces.003 -> name.2

This gets really obnoxious when the parts are decoded out of order; the
first completed gets no suffix, the next gets ".1", and so on. At that
point I can only guess what the original sequence was. I would prefer
oddly-named files to this mess.

Does anybody know a solution, or do I just write a wrapper to translate
" " -> "_" in the filename?

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