Subject: Re: Does Pine support binhex or mime?

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 11:13:31 -0700

Pine supports MIME.  The attachment will be accessible via the 'v',
ViewAttachment command in the message view screen.  The exact syntax from
there varies slightly depending on the version of Pine... 

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On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Damon Brodie wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 OCT 1994 22:35:07 ATLANTIC 
> From: Damon Brodie <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Does Pine support binhex or mime? 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to send some rather large files to a friend via email.  I'm using
> Euroda in Windows, which will encode attachements with both MIME and BinHex.
> 
> He is using pine 3.91 (It think) on, I assume, UNIX.
> 
> Can he decode either of those formats?  If not then we have to resort to  
> uuencoding, and I don't want to do that.
> 
> If it can be done, can you tell me [specifically] how to get at the attached 
> file with pine....
> 
> Thanks for your help, and please respond via e-mail....
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> 
> Damon Brodie
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From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 29 Oct 1994 13:28:29 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
>uuencoding, and I don't want to do that.

Pine does MIME, and quite well.  BinHex is generally a
Macintosh-oriented encoding technique, and though WinEudora supports
it (mainly for complete compatibility with Eudora for Macintosh) the
tools necessary to use BinHex in Unix are unfortunately rather
cumbersome.

What you really need to think about is where your associate will be
finally using the files.  If he will be downloading it from his Unix
account where he runs Pine to a Macintosh, then BinHex is probably
useful.  (You can encode in BinHex, and then in MIME, of course, and
that's what you'll want to do in this case.)

Otherwise, use MIME alone without the BinHex encoding.  BinHex merely
preserves the resource fork that all Macintosh files need along with
the data fork common in all operating systems.

>If it can be done, can you tell me [specifically] how to get at the attached 

When your associate views the email you have sent, Pine will inform
him that the mail he is viewing has MIME attachments.  He can then
press "V" to view or save the attachments.

Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
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