Subject: Windows 95 and Pine Mail

From: "Kathleen P. Daily-Herrman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 06:34:29 -0700 (MST)

Hi...

I use Pine Mail in the Unix Shell when I login
to my ISP with Windows 95 and Procomm Plus for
windows (communications software)

In my pine mail setup I use the "attached to
ANSI" for my printer..and there is a printer
set up in Windows 95.

When I was running strictly Windows I had
no problem printing...now when I threw windows
95 on my pc...I suddenly can't print to my
attached printer.

Help?  Anyone?  My mailbox is starting to fill 
up.

Kathleen

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From: Bruno Boettcher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:23:56 +0100 (MET)

hello,

i just received a mail with teh following content:
 [Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "FIBU.DE")  4.4KB]
  [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]

  [Part 3, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "PIZZAP1.GIF")  4.1KB]
  [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]

now the first one is only an ascii-file and the second as the name says a
gif.

As i tryed to view them i got a 
[VIEWER Result: sh: hd: command not found]
error....

which is in conformance with my .mailcap (i corrected hd to od BTW)
now how should be the line in the mailcap for gifs/jpeg's? and what has my
sender to do so that the type is set correctly?

And how shall i view those thingies when the type is set wrong?
 
ciao
[email-masked] 

==============================================================
[email-masked]
http://www-ensps.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ (official & not reliable)
http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ (inofficial & reliable :)
===============================================================
the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant.
human population is growing....

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:53:16 +0100 (MET)

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Bruno Boettcher wrote:

-> hello,
-> 
-> i just received a mail with teh following content:
->  [Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "FIBU.DE")  4.4KB]
->   [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]
-> 
-> 
->   [Part 3, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "PIZZAP1.GIF")  4.1KB]
->   [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]
-> 
-> now the first one is only an ascii-file and the second as the name says a
-> gif.
-> 
-> As i tryed to view them i got a 
-> [VIEWER Result: sh: hd: command not found]
-> error....
-> 
-> which is in conformance with my .mailcap (i corrected hd to od BTW)
-> now how should be the line in the mailcap for gifs/jpeg's? and what has my
-> sender to do so that the type is set correctly?
-> 
-> And how shall i view those thingies when the type is set wrong?
->  
-> ciao
-> [email-masked] 
-> 
-> ==============================================================
-> [email-masked]
-> http://www-ensps.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ (official & not reliable)
-> http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ (inofficial & reliable :)
-> ===============================================================
-> the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant.
-> human population is growing....
-> 

I'm using xv to view images. So the line in my mailcap is
      image/*; xv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

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Rudolf Kompf                     | E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: Bruno Boettcher <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:06:38 +0100 (MET)

>       image/*; xv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
ok found that seems to be there by default...
remain the other two questions:
(1) what has the sender to do to set the type correctly?
(2) How do i view those misconfigured attachments

ciao
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:35:09 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Bruno Boettcher wrote:

-> > 
-> > I'm using xv to view images. So the line in my mailcap is
-> >       image/*; xv %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
-> ok found that seems to be there by default...
-> remain the other two questions:
-> (1) what has the sender to do to set the type correctly?
-> (2) How do i view those misconfigured attachments
-> 
->  
-> ciao
-> [email-masked] 
-> 
-> ==============================================================
-> [email-masked]
-> http://www-ensps.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ (official & not reliable)
-> http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ (inofficial & reliable :)
-> ===============================================================
-> the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant.
-> human population is growing....
-> 
(1) The sender should use a MUA with MIME-encoding/decoding such as Pine
or Netscape. Pine maps MIME type and subtype information to the file name
extension of attachments by reading the files ~/.mime.types,
/etc/mime.types, and /usr/local/lib/mime.types (in this order).
A line in ~/.mime.types views e.g. as:
image/gif                      gif
or:
application/postscript         ai eps ps

(2) Save the attachment to a file and check the content by any viewer.

Hope this helps

Rudolf