Date: 17 Feb 1997 13:27:52 +0000 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards), peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <57hgjb1s13.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:27:07 %2B0100 (MET) References: <199702171227.NAA03025@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> writes: > > Why go to all this trouble? I use RTF which is a published > > specification. If you need to do batch conversion of Word to RTF then > > you do, but most people just "attach" documents as they are and don't > care about the format being published or not, on the ground that it is > a de-facto standard. I usually dump such files, but that's not always > an option. Ahh, OK. Lost track of the original subject i.e. MIME and mail attachments. I actually use Adobe's W4W, which is a word processor format conversion tool that converts most formats into each other plus other common formats like ASCII and HTML. I've got a nice little hook from gnus which auto-decodes mail attachments using this and displays them as HTML in Netscape (since I don't have word processors on my Sun box). Unless it's a wordperfect file since I do have that on the box. -- Dr Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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