Re: Q: Setup for MIME decoding

Øystein Skogstad (oyskog@sn.no)
Wed, 08 May 1996 22:02:59 +0200

In article <58mjxIlmhxCH083yn@sn.no>, you wrote:
>
>Hi, all
>
>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?
> Is it possible to make the two programs work "side by side", or do I
>have to modify my CONFIG file each time I wish to "invoke" METAMAIL.
>When I try to open both statements in CONFIG, METAMAIL fails to decode
>nordic characters.
> I use Yarn 0.83, owing to limited space and excellent functions on
>my system - despite from this tiny nuisance.

Why don't you upgrade to version 0.90?
That version shows norwegian characters just fine.
Alt. you could upgrade to version 0.89 and use UNMIME to view norwegian
characters posted from programs not following the standard, as Free Agent.

To take care of encoded messages (like binary files), you may use UNMIME also.
But if you use it, you need to manually strip the headers.
METAMAIL may do this better. (I don't know).

-- 
Øystein


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