From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 00:07:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA24607 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:07:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA24599 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10470; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Robert Du Gaue cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle, Sybase, and some .dbf databses like foxpro? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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