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- From: bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes)
- Subject: Re: MIME compliant mailreaders for MS-DOS/Windows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.235453.604@kirk.bu.oz.au>
- Keywords: MIME, Mail, SMTP
- Organization: ITS, Bond University
- References: <1992Dec30.111958.19733@ulrik.uio.no> <1hsf8qINNfm0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:54:53 GMT
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- trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
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- >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.
-
-
- Another option is to "hold-your-hourses" for a bit and wait for a public
- release of PC-Pine. Well worth the wait in my opinion. As for the
- quality of the package, what can I say? It's Pine .... == very nice.
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