Subject: Enriched Text

From: Shirish Kalele <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 03:53:35 +0500

Hi!
We use Pine 3.93 on our UNIX network and I was wondering if Pine can send
enriched text msgs. And if so, how does one compose such a msg? I know that
Pine 3.93 can interpret enriched text because it shows the <bold> text
brighter and the underlined text underlined and so on..
Anybody got a clue?

Shirish Kalele
Bombay, India.
http://members.tripod.com/~shirish_kalele/

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From: [email-masked] (Ken Simler)
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:45:48 GMT

>brighter and the underlined text underlined and so on..

As far as I can tell you have to compose the text/enriched message outside 
of Pine, and then send it as an attachment.  You also need to have an entry 
in your .mime.types file that maps whatever file extension you use on the 
file to the MIME type/subtype text/enriched.

On Unix systems, Pine does the following search for .mime.types files.  
(The following is excerpted from the .mime-types that is distributed with 
Pine).

# Pine first looks for "~/.mime.types", then adds
# any unbound MIME types found in "/etc/mime.types"
# and "/usr/local/lib/mime.types".

-Ken

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:28:24 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Ken Simler wrote:

  >[email-masked] (Shirish Kalele) wrote:

  >>We use Pine 3.93 on our UNIX network and I was wondering if Pine can
  >>send enriched text msgs. And if so, how does one compose such a msg? I
  >>know that Pine 3.93 can interpret enriched text because it shows the
  >><bold> text brighter and the underlined text underlined and so on..
  >>Anybody got a clue?
  >As far as I can tell you have to compose the text/enriched message
  >outside of Pine, and then send it as an attachment. 
  
Depends on how you define "outside". It'll do to invoke an external editor
in pine. XEmacs 19.15 (I know that's ridiculous:_) but at least it's easier
than manually attaching a file... ) could do that, and so could the editor
that comes with the Andrew Toolkit (but that one is GUI only afaik).
  
Just my $.02  
  
Later,
Robin

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