From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 7 22: 9:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D63814CA7 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:09:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA29185; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:09:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA28680; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:09:02 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:09:02 -0700 Message-Id: <199903080609.XAA28680@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: alk@pobox.com Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: base64 In-Reply-To: <14051.26618.409741.264371@avalon.east> References: <14048.10089.598598.919239@avalon.east> <36E07AEC.101F3467@newsguy.com> <14048.48864.918087.631128@avalon.east> <19990306095927.B53145@kudra.com> <14049.29637.311448.247778@avalon.east> <199903080209.TAA28284@mt.sri.com> <14051.24548.250885.992678@avalon.east> <199903080600.XAA28637@mt.sri.com> <14051.26618.409741.264371@avalon.east> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > : Finally, there is *NO* way to distribute a standard MIME client that > : > : will not add bloat. > : > > : > mpack/munpack. > : > : How can they be integrated with bin/mail, which is the standard unix > : mail reader? > > Similarly to uuencode/uudecode: ~|command Ahh, but that doesn't work well if you have multiple attachments (been there, done that). My old email client (not /bin/mail) did not handle attachments, and I struggled along with the MIME stuff from Bell labs, and they finally gave up and installed a MIME capable reader. However, I rarely have use for them anymore on FreeBSD, since the only non-text files ever sent around are Word documents (with the appropriate version of the Word Virus sprinkled in). Since I don't have word, I have very little use for the attachments. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message