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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Oracle, Sybase, and some .dbf databses like foxpro?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013000607.9609e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971003085102.22368B-100000@web2.calweb.com>

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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Robert Du Gaue wrote:

> Sometimes I get this message in pine:
> 
> --
> This message contains non-ASCII text, but the iso-8859-1 font
> has apparently not yet been installed on this machine.
> (There is no directory named /usr/local/lib/metamail/fonts.)
> What follows may be partially unreadable, but the English (ASCII) parts
> should still be readable.
> --
> We have metamail installed, but its in /bin and is not a directory. Is
> there something that we're missing to avoid this message? Happens alot
> from IE/Netscape emails that are read with pine.

What are you using for your terminal when you're reading this?  I get a
little note at the top but it basically says that ISO-8859-1 != US-ASCII
and that some characters might be wacky.  It doesn't get as offended as
yours.

What version of Pine are you on, btw?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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