NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/mail/mime/57

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From: [e-mail] (Harry Broomhall)
Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!pc60.demon.co.uk!haeb
Subject: Metamail under MS-DOS problems.
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:00:40 +0000
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    Has anybody got Metamail to work under MS-DOS?   I am
very new at playing with MIME, and as I have UUPC here it
seemed that Metamail was the way to go.
    Problems so far:   1)  For ordinary 822 messages mm
uses 'cat'.   Now to most MS-DOS people cat is a furry
creature that occasionaly allows its slaves to touch a
keyboard!  :-)    Fortunately I found a cat from somewhere,
but this might be slightly difficult for some.   There is a
further problem that I suspect that any command that Metamail
calls must not be embedded in command.com, so that rules out
both copy and type, so it seems that cat needs to be included
in an MS-DOS based archive.
    2)  Mailers.txt suggests that to get it to work with UUPC
mail just change the 'Pager=' line in personal.rc.  This
unfortunately is not enough, as mail will use the pager when
displaying help, with weird results!   You need to change
'options=nopager' to 'options=pager'.   This reverses the way
the pager is used, and, incidently, won't call Metamail unless
requeted.
    Having got this far I'm a little stymied.  mailcap will
not work under MS-DOS, as it uses shell scripts that just
don't work there.  So what next?
    Regards,
         Harry.
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