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- From: jsweet@irvine.com (Jerry Sweet)
- Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions about MIME
- In-Reply-To: Article from rodney.price on Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:37:07 +0000.
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:05:04 GMT
- To: rprice@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rodney.price)
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- Starting over a year ago, Marshall Rose made no bones about wanting
- someone to help to configure MH-MIME for the NeXT. At that time,
- someone at NeXT had managed to get some version of MH to compile under
- NeXT/Mach 2.1, but wasn't widely publicizing the patches ...although
- that person did pipe up at a BANG meeting a year or so ago when I
- brought up the subject there.
-
- MH was otherwise difficult to compile on the NeXT for someone with a
- limited time budget. MH 6.8 is out now; perhaps things are different
- for compiling it on a NeXT, since MH 6.8 makes a few more concessions
- to ANSI C compatibility.
-
- Well, no one can accuse MH of having a beautiful graphical user
- interface based tool for creating MIME messages, but it does support
- MIME, no question about it.
-
- With respect to NeXTmail, by way of contrast, here is an excerpt from
- my contribution to the FAQ (the new version of which isn't out yet)
- regarding other multi-media e-mail user agents:
-
- > The ability to create e-mail messages with audio and other non-textual
- > contents has been around for a while, but almost always as part of a
- > vendor-specific ``solution.'' This means that you can't create a
- > message on a NeXT system containing PostScript information and ``Lip
- > Service'' (NeXT's audio e-mail tool) and easily handle the same
- > message on an HP 9000/710, a Sun SPARCstation IPC, and a Silicon
- > Graphics Iris. That's a problem that MIME helps to solve.
-
- It isn't much different from what you said. The point, which you've
- already noted, Rodney, is that a multi-media e-mail solution that
- works only with NeXTs doesn't cut the mustard.
-