Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:15:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [FYI] Oracle on FreeBSD: official response Message-ID: <19990126191500.Z66239@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990126100930.A18505@ucb.crimea.ua>; from Ruslan Ermilov on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:09:30AM %2B0200 References: <19990125113352.A28261@ucb.crimea.ua> <19990126105355.Q36690@freebie.lemis.com> <19990125164657.A28375@mooseriver.com> <19990126100930.A18505@ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at 10:09:30 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:46:58PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:53:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Monday, 25 January 1999 at 11:33:52 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Recently someone posted the message that, according >>>> to Oracle Sales, Oracle for FreeBSD will be available >>>> in the middle of February. >>>> >>>> Yesterday I asked Oracle Support whether they have >>>> any plans to release FreeBSD version of Oracle Server. >>>> >>>> Attached are the question and the answer (HTML). >>> >>> Wouldn't it have been easier on people who use mailers for reading >>> mail if you had just relayed the answer? > > Because it was ``official'', I don't wanted to change anything. > I just removed HREFs and IMGs. Sure, I don't really have any objection to that. But it wouldn't have done any harm to add a summary for those people who don't have HTML mail configured. >> Agree! The whole world does not use netscape as a mail reader. Please stop >> sending HTML wrapped mail. > > I can't undestand why I should stop to do this? > > It seems you're lazy to make your mailer display HTML for you ;-) As Josef points out in his reply to this message, it's not always a question of laziness. > I don't use Netscape. Like you both, I use `mutt' (in the ports). > Its autoview feature and `lynx' (also in the ports) allow me to > view HTML. > > To view HTMLs in the `mutt' you should: > > 1. install `lynx' > 2. add the following line to ~/.muttrc: > auto_view text/html > 3. create ~/.mailcap with the following line: > text/html; lynx -dump -force_html %s; copiousoutput > > Is it too much? ;-) No, it's not enough if I send you an attachment with graphics. That's one of the problems: there are too many possible incompatibilities. See http://www.lemis.com/email.html for more possibilities. But since we're talking about mutt, you might prefer this approach: 1. Install netscrape. 2. Add the following line to ~/.muttrc: auto_view text/html 3. Add the following single line to /usr/local/etc/mailcap: text/html; cp %s /var/tmp && netscape -remote "openURL(file:/var/tmp/`basename %s`)" || netscape /var/tmp/`basename %s` I sent this previous line out as a single line. If you receive it folded, your mailer is broken. It must be inserted into the file as a single line. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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