python poplib fix ================= Purpose ------- Fix python's poplib specifically its "." unstuffing. poplib was not stripping the leading "." from lines that consisted of more that one ".". The specification demands that the leading "." be stripped. How to Apply ------------ get python release 1.5.2 (e.g. ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/) tar xvzf python-1.5.tar.gz cd python-1.5 patch -p1 < ../file.patch (or whatever you called it) ./configure make Caolan McNamara (2000)