> I would like to get some advice on how to configure Yarn for reading
> MIME messages. The program UNMIME takes care of the special norwegian
> characters, while METAMAIL is supposed to work with other forms of
> encoded messages and graphics?
You don't need UNMIME. You need METAMAIL, a text file viewer such as
Vernon Buerg's LIST, and probably, since METAMAIL doesn't do it itself,
a program that converts ISO 8859-1 to the IBM character set. I use
Gisle Hannemyr's PEP program, but unfortunately I don't remember exactly
where I found it.
As a first step, my solution is to make a file named VIEWISO.BAT for
viewing text in the ISO 8859-1 character set:
@echo off
pep -giso2ibm < %1 > c:\temp\viewiso.$$$
list c:\temp\viewiso.$$$
del c:\temp\viewiso.$$$
This assumes that you've got a directory for temporary files called
C:\TEMP, otherwise change it as appropriate, or leave off the directory
name. You *could* pipe the output from PEP directly to LIST /s, too. I
prefer not to mess around with DOS pipes if I can avoid it.
Then you need to set up a MAILCAP file. Make a text file in the YARN
directory containing the entry:
text/*; viewiso %s
This assumes that VIEWISO is in a directory that's listed in your PATH.
Otherwise add the directory yourself. *However,* in the METAMAIL file,
single backslashes are taken as escape characters. You have to double
them all, such as c:\\bat\\viewiso.
Finally, add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
set MAILCAPS=c:\yarn\mailcap
This, of course, assumes that c:\yarn is where you have the MAILCAP
file.
> I use Yarn 0.83, owing to limited space and excellent functions on
> my system - despite from this tiny nuisance.
More recent versions are better at this, although they have other
problems. Yarn 0.89 can view Quoted-Printable directly. Unfortunately,
it doesn't convert it in your replies. 0.89 also has a serious problem
with viewing ISO 8859-1 text in a message without MIME headers, so I
would not recommend it if you read or write messages in Norwegian.
0.90 is much better at this, though some people have had big problems
with the new database format. At least you MUST remember to run CVT09
once before you use it.
I wish that Chin would add the METAMAIL functionality to Yarn itself, so
we didn't have to rely on an extra text viewer and character conversion
program. Even the new functions in Yarn 0.89 and 0.90 don't help when
receiving a message with attached files, even though Yarn can *make*
those messages. So Yarn can't read a message sent by Yarn.
Yngvar