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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:47:06 +1100
From:      jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [FYI] Oracle on FreeBSD: official response
Message-ID:  <19990127034706.A23783@caamora.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990126191500.Z66239@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:15:00PM %2B1030
References:  <19990125113352.A28261@ucb.crimea.ua> <19990126105355.Q36690@freebie.lemis.com> <19990125164657.A28375@mooseriver.com> <19990126100930.A18505@ucb.crimea.ua> <19990126191500.Z66239@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:15:00PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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.

where can one find a console (aka textmode) version of netscape, i'd gladly 
give up on mutt and lynx to use a freebsd text mode netscape, anyting to get 
away from that wretched xfree86.

suggestions as always welcome

regards

jonathan

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