From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 08:43:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29104 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29093 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA23861; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:47:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990127034706.A23783@caamora.com.au> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:47:06 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: [FYI] Oracle on FreeBSD: official response Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19990126191500.Z66239@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:15:00PM +1030 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message