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- MIME2CIS Copyright 1996 (c) Murray F Freeman
- Postfach 119
- CH 6052 Hergiswil
- Switzerland
-
- Registration fee US$10. GO SWREG number 12483
-
- The program does the following:
-
- Strips out the Internet Routing Garbage at the start of CIS emails.
-
- Converts MIME encoded extended ASCII characters to either DOSCIM or WINCIM
- format, so that ß appears not as =DF, but as the sz character used in German.
-
- MIME2CIS will also:
-
- * call MUNPACK to decode embedded MIME: BASE64 files.
- * call UUDECODE to decode embedded UUENCODED files.
- * adds returns to Line feeds
- * remind you to register until you do so!!
- * places the unpacked files into your BASKET.IN directory
- * Logs unpacked filenames into an file called 'MLOG'
- * optionally scans your download directory for files to unpack
-
-
- NOTE UUDECODE AND MUNPACK are included for your convenience, they are not
- part of MIME2CIS and are not part of the licensed software.
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
- -------------
-
- if your 'CSERVE' directory is on C or D, just run:
-
- install.bat
-
- otherwise run:
- install [your_directory]
-
- WINCIM:
- -------
-
- If you are running windows, add to your compuserve folder, the program
- MIME2CIS.exe located in the BASKET.IN directory. Using File New, browse into
- the diretory
-
- \cserve\fcabinet\basket.in then click on MIME2CIS.EXE
-
- Then, when you want to run MIME2CIS, double click on this icon after
- you download your mail, (use ALT TAB to switch from WINCIM into Program Manager,
- start MIME2CIS from the ICONO, then ALT TAB to go back to WINCIM).
-
- if you would like MIME2CIS to also process the files in your download directory,
- then add to MIME2CIS.EXE the following
-
- MIME2CIS.EXE -dc:\cserve\download
-
- (or any other directory where attachments may be found).
-
- DOSCIM:
- ------
-
- if you are running DOSCIM, just use the menu item Special then Dos to
- temporarily goto DOS, then run MIME.bat to process your in-basket after
- you have downloaded your emails. Edit MIME.BAT for the download directory
- on your system.
-
-
- DIRECTORIES
- -----------
-
- To make every thing run immediately, the UUDECODE and MUNPACK programs have
- been put into your BASKET.IN directory. If you prefer, you can copy these
- programs to any directory in your PATH. These programs are freeware from
- the public domain. They are included in this ZIP file only for your
- convienence.
-
- If you want MIME2CIS to automatically copy the files into another directory,
- use the -d option (-dc:\cserve\download for example). If there are any
- NONAME.* files in that directory, they will also be processed and unpacked.
-
-
- RESULTS
- -------
-
- After running MIME2CIS, any emails that contained packed information, are
- unpacked and stored in the BASKET.IN directory,
-
- If you select the -dc:\cserve\download option, your files will be stored in
- that directory.
-
- In the case of MIME encoded files, the results of the conversion can be
- viewed simply with your WINCIM In Basket function.
-
- In the case of UUENCODED files, the data in the In Basket has not been changed,
- but the unpacked file is either in your BASKET.IN directory or in the
- directory you setup with the -d option.
-
- FILE ATTACHMENTS
- ----------------
-
- Sometime emails arrive with attachments. WINCIM places these into the
- \cserve\download directory. They are called NONAME.DAT, or if there are
- many, NONAME.001 etc.
-
- MIME2CIS will unpack these too if you specify the -d option.
-
-
- ATTRIBUTES
- ----------
-
- To avoid processing files more than once, MIME2CIS uses the ACHIVE attribute
- to detect which files to process. Afterwards the attribute bit is reset. If
- you want to process older emails, that have been backed up and may have their
- attribute fields set to 0, you need to reset them to one. Type
-
- attrib +a *.plx
-
- and your will be ready to run MIME2CIS. When you copy the files from the
- IN BASKET to any other directory, the attribute bit will be set again, so
- future backups will store the processed emails.
-
-
- RESULTS
- -------
-
- Always check your BASKET.IN directory (or other directory specified with the
- -d option) for the results of the unpacking. If the same filename was used
- in multiple MIME files, then MUNPACK will assign sequence numbers (test.doc
- becomes test.1 test.2 etc). If this happens, the original EMAIL will not be
- changed, even though the contents may have been unpacked. This is to handle
- the case where an error occurs in the unpacking, your original file is not
- changed if this happens.
-
-
- Murray Freeman
- 20 August 1996
-