MIME::Tools | MIME::Body | MIME::Decoder | MIME::Entity |
MIME::Head | MIME::IO | MIME::Latin1 | MIME::Parser |
MIME::ParserBase | MIME::ToolUtils | MIME::Tools | MIME::Words |
MIME:: |
MIME::IO - DEPRECATED package for turning things into IO handles
Deprecated.
As of MIME-tools 4.0, these routines are done by IO:: modules. This module will be going away soon.
As of MIME-tools 2.0, input and output routines cannot just assume that they are dealing with filehandles. In an effort to come up with a nice, OO way of encapsulating input/output streams, I decided to use a minimal subset of Graham Barr's IO::Handle interface.
Therefore, all that MIME::Body, MIME::Decoder, and the other classes require (and, thus, all that they can assume) is that they are manipulating an object which responds to the following small, well-defined set of messages:
close getline getlines print ARGS... read BUFFER,NBYTES
Now with 5.004 on the shelves, tiehandle() makes this unnecessary. Oh, well. :-)
Obsoleted by IO::Wrap. The code:
use MIME::IO; my $IO = wrap MIME::IO::Handle \*STDOUT;
can now be written more properly as:
use IO::Wrap; my $IO = wraphandle \*STDOUT;
Obsoleted by IO::Scalar. The code:
use MIME::IO; $IO = new MIME::IO::Scalar \$scalar; $IO->print("Some data\n"); $IO->print("Some more data\n"); $IO->close; # ...$scalar now holds "Some data\nSome more data\n"
can now be written more properly as:
use IO::Scalar; $IO = new IO::Scalar \$scalar; ...
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Eryq / eryq@zeegee.com
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
$Revision: 4.103 $ $Date: 1998/01/10 06:01:33 $