Subject: Re: HOW TO PROPERLY ATTACH BINARIES

From: "Ronald D. Kurr" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:12:33 -0400

On Fri, 7 Apr 1995 [email-masked] wrote:

> In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950406094749.11125D-100000@burst> you wrote:
> 
> : How do I speicify the MIME type when attaching a binary?  As a test, I sent
> : an image to myself and all pine could do was run od against it.  I have my
> : .mailcap set up and it is supposed to run xv for images.  Obviously, I'm
> : encoding the fact that the .bmp file is an image.  Any ideas?
> 
> Most of what you said here is above me since I'm a newbie but I don't do
> anything special to attach binaries. A friend and I pass Mac binary Photo-
> shop files back and forth. The files go from Mac to IBM RS6000 through Pine
> to another RS6000 and back down to a Mac. (I'm probably missing your point):
> 

I wasn't clear in my message.  I can attach the binaries and send them to
people.  What I can't figure out is how to tell the recieving mailers what
TYPE of binary is coming.  The mailcap file specifies what viewer to run when
a particular type of binary is viewed.  For example, in the default mailcap
file, all binaries designated IMAGE should be displayed using the xv viewer.
What happens when I mail the file to myself and other pine users, is that
pine doesn't know what the binary type is and simply brings up a hex viewer
on the file.  What I want is to understand how to tell pine to designate the
binary as an image file so that that other MIME compatible readers can
behave intelligently.

Ron

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:18:39 -0700 (PDT)

Ron,
Unfortunately you can't control the MIME type in current version,
but you will be able to in the next one via a "mimetypes" file.

-teg

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From: "Ronald D. Kurr" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 09:15:43 -0400 (EDT)

> but you will be able to in the next one via a "mimetypes" file.

Thanks for the info.  Do you know when the next version will be coming out?

Thanks, 

Ron

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 06:40:51 -0700 (PDT)

No, we don't have a date for the next version yet.

-teg