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- From: bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan Berry)
- Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions about MIME
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.015329.28878@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:53:29 GMT
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- Harald Tveit Alvestrand (hta@boheme.er.sintef.no) wrote:
- : I do not think dividing between SunOS, BSD and SysVR4 makes sense.
- : Where would MIXmh fit?
- :
- : Possibly it would be better to say something like:
- :
- : 5.x Free MIME for Unix/X (mixmh)
- : 5.x Free MIME for Unix/Terminals (mhn, pine)
- : 5.x Free MIME for PC/Windows
- : 5.x Free MIME for PC/character based (pine again, I THINK)
- : 5.x Free MIME for AmigaOS
- : 5.x Free MIME for Macintosh
- :
- : I don't know enough about NeXT to know whether it is an UNIX or a strange
- : beast, though I suspect the latter....
-
- Aye, it is a strange beast in that it operates under the NeXTSTEP window
- server, but it does use BSD-like Unix with a Mach kernel.
-
- The sections should indicate the separate (non-)graphical environments,
- according to your method.
- Hence: Unix/X, Unix/NeXTSTEP, Unix/Terminals, etc. etc...
- --
- Dan Berry bugs%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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