RE: I-D submission tool

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John C Klensin wrote:

> For the second, it claims that the file isn't "plain text" and
> won't post it or even provide a manual submission path.  The
> file is output or xml2rfc, has proper CRLF line endings, and, if
> it contains any non-ASCII characters or serious format
> misbehavior, the online version of idnits can't find it, even in
> very verbose mode. [rt.amsl.com #1799]

I also encountered this problem (rt.amsl.com #1730), and after some
debugging, discovered what the problem was: the submission tool uses
the "file" program to check whether the file is plain text or not, and
(apparently) the "file" program on the new servers behaves slightly
differently from the old one.

In particular, if you have the string "(if approved)" on your cover
page, some versions of "file" (at least some Linux distributions)
will identify your draft as "Lisp/Scheme program text" instead of 
just ASCII :-)

Best regards,
Pasi
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