Subject: Re: How read attachment file in pine - Reg

From: Ed Arnold <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:51:34 -0700 (MST)

To read Micro$oft Word docs (assuming you're doing this on a unix
box), you'll need a copy of a package like StarOffice or Applix,
and a modification to your .mailcap file such as

application/msword; applixwds %s; description="MS Word document via Applix";

If you don't get these kinds of documents frequently, it's just easier
to go find a Windoze PC and read it there.  (PetPeeve: people who send
everything as an M$ Word doc by default, and who don't even know what
a text editor or plain ascii is.)

> Hi,
> I am using pine for email purposes and I would like to know how read
> attachment file sent to an user for example like me. I have got a mail
> and I have tried using viewer present in the pine but I could not read
> the attachment file.The attachment file is a *.doc file. I tried saving
> the file and then reading it using pico file or vi editor but I am not
> able to read it. Is there any way of reading the attachment file or is
> there any way for extracting the file for reading purposes.
> I will be happy to be advised in this aspect. Once again thank you, in
> advance for help.
> 
> Prasana
> 
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From: Freda B Birnbaum <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:32:50 -0500 (EST)

> a text editor or plain ascii is.)

.doc files sent as attachments are often (usually?) MS Word files. As was
said previously, extract it to a file, and ftp it in BINARY mode to a PC,
and read it there in Word.

A cute trick someone showed me... if you have both a Unix account and an
MS Mail or Exchange account, forward the message to your MS account from
your Unix account, then read it on the MS account.

And it's my pet peeve, too!

Freda Birnbaum, [email-masked]
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks"

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From: Rich Leggitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:49:51 -0800 (PST)

Star Office is a slick little MS-Office workalike for X. Get it from
www.sun.com/staroffice. Once you have it working, add the line:

application/msword; your-path-to/soffice %s

to your ~/.mailcap file, then restart pine. Now pine will fork Star
Office to view .doc files.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, DeviPrasannaKumar wrote:

> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 09:51:38 +0530
> From: DeviPrasannaKumar <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: How read attachment file in pine - Reg
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,

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From: Matthew Wild <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:05:57 +0000 (GMT)

> and read it there in Word.

Alternatively, use something like mswordview, which converts Word files to
html. It does quite a good job and it has saved me the trouble of
reinstalling vmware-NT on my desktop.

Matthew
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From: Joseph Scanlan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:50:34 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Ed Arnold wrote:

> (PetPeeve: people who send everything as an M$ Word doc by default,
> and who don't even know what a text editor or plain ascii is.)

It depends on how you look at it.  Delete takes care of those messages
without ever having to transfer the attachment from the IMAP server.

Sounds like a feature to me.  :-)

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 03 Feb 2000 07:54:58 +0100

> without ever having to transfer the attachment from the IMAP server.

Manual work not be good work. Use antivir and 90% of the Word files will
be deleted because they're infested with viruses. Use procmail to get
rid of the rest. Then nuke the morons who steal *my* bandwidth by using
inferior software in the first place.
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Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>

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From: Dan Fulbright <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:42:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

Please, let's take this one offline.  This has nothing to do with Pine.

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