From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 05:28:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA14902 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 05:28:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA14897 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 05:28:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA09830 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:26:28 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:28:00 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA17653; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:54 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id NAA06862; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:53 GMT To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards), peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD References: <199702171227.NAA03025@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> From: Paul Richards Date: 17 Feb 1997 13:27:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <57hgjb1s13.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo writes: > > Why go to all this trouble? I use RTF which is a published > > specification. If you need to do batch conversion of Word to RTF then > > you do, but most people just "attach" documents as they are and don't > care about the format being published or not, on the ground that it is > a de-facto standard. I usually dump such files, but that's not always > an option. Ahh, OK. Lost track of the original subject i.e. MIME and mail attachments. I actually use Adobe's W4W, which is a word processor format conversion tool that converts most formats into each other plus other common formats like ASCII and HTML. I've got a nice little hook from gnus which auto-decodes mail attachments using this and displays them as HTML in Netscape (since I don't have word processors on my Sun box). Unless it's a wordperfect file since I do have that on the box. -- Dr Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155