Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:34:32 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [FYI] Oracle on FreeBSD: official response Message-ID: <19990126003432.A3028@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <19990126100930.A18505@ucb.crimea.ua>; from Ruslan Ermilov on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:09:30AM %2B0200 References: <19990125113352.A28261@ucb.crimea.ua> <19990126105355.Q36690@freebie.lemis.com> <19990125164657.A28375@mooseriver.com> <19990126100930.A18505@ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:09:30AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:46:58PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:53:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Monday, 25 January 1999 at 11:33:52 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > Recently someone posted the message that, according > > > > to Oracle Sales, Oracle for FreeBSD will be available > > > > in the middle of February. > > > > > > > > Yesterday I asked Oracle Support whether they have > > > > any plans to release FreeBSD version of Oracle Server. > > > > > > > > Attached are the question and the answer (HTML). > > > > > > Wouldn't it have been easier on people who use mailers for reading > > > mail if you had just relayed the answer? > > Because it was ``official'', I don't wanted to change anything. > I just removed HREFs and IMGs. > > > > > Agree! The whole world does not use netscape as a mail reader. Please stop > > sending HTML wrapped mail. > > > > > > Josef > > > > I can't undestand why I should stop to do this? > It seems you're lazy to make your mailer display HTML for you ;-) > > I don't use Netscape. Like you both, I use `mutt' (in the ports). > Its autoview feature and `lynx' (also in the ports) allow me to > view HTML. > > To view HTMLs in the `mutt' you should: > > 1. install `lynx' > 2. add the following line to ~/.muttrc: > auto_view text/html > 3. create ~/.mailcap with the following line: > text/html; lynx -dump -force_html %s; copiousoutput > > Is it too much? ;-) Yes, this is very clever. Thank you for sending this us. Can you help me with a problem ? I also use mutt and I have friends who send me email in Postscript, LaTex, PCL, and PDF. Not to mention microsoft word format documents with embedded excel documents. Could you figure out how to get mutt to display these formats. And while you are at it can you see what you can do about Pine, Elm, Mail, exmh, and tkrat. ;-) The above is sarcasm. What I am try to point out it that not everybody uses mutt and not everybody is interested in spending their time figuring out how to get their favorite mail reader to understand every document format. The reason we use ASCII text is because it is a common format. If we don't use common standards we will end up spending more and more time inventing clever little hacks to translate back and forth between our favorite document format. This is the lesson of the Tower of Babble. HTML is to web browser as Postscript is to printers as ASCII is to mail readers. Josef "no more coffee for me" Grosch -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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