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- From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: MIME compliant mailreaders for MS-DOS/Windows
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:29:30 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <1hsf8qINNfm0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Dec30.111958.19733@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Keywords: MIME, Mail, SMTP
-
- In article <1992Dec30.111958.19733@ulrik.uio.no> peterh@oslo.uninett.no (Peter Hausken) writes:
- >We're starting to use MIME on UNIX machines, but I have not seen any
- >mailreaders for MS-DOS who is using MIME yet. Is there anyone working
- >on implementing MIME on MS-DOS?
-
- The metamail programs from Nathaniel Borenstein run on MS-DOS. We integ-
- rated these programs with a local mail reader, and they work well. The
- resulting user interface is clunky, as one would expect from the merger
- of an vn/elm-style visual mail reader and a command-line MIME reader-
- composer, but it does work.
-
- It's relatively easy to adapt mail readers to use metamail. In our case,
- it took no more than a few dozen lines of code.
-
- --
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