Re: Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" ?

Donald Breda (dbreda@world.std.com)
Wed, 29 May 1996 20:12:48 +0000

Hi there. I would suggest calling a program like "view."
this is a dos utility version100e is the latest I believe.
It reads ascii, word, wordperfect, wordstar and yes html files with no
problem.
It even has features to write out an ascii file from then as well.
Would be really good for yarn I think with metta mail.
I believe it can be found as view100e.zip on the net.

Hope this helps.
I haven't tried it mysslf but I guess thats because I haen't encountered
that type of mime header yet.
I should plug it in anyway.
thanks.

>Has anyone been able to make Yarn call an external web-browser
>or HTML-converter/viewer when receiving Mime messages with
>these header fields:
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
>?
>
>I tryed to modify the MAILCAP file so now it is:
>
>text/html; showhtml %s
>text/*; edit %s
>image/gif; 2show %s
>
>When I read the messages Yarn (v.89 under DOS) it makes a call to
>the showhtml.bat command (that makes a call to doslynx.exe),
>and a temporary (%s = somefile.TAA) file comes up. When I save
>this as a .HTM file and load it, things work. BUT when I exit
>to Yarn, everything locks up. The onely way out then, is to
>re-boot :(
>
>Perhaps I'm running out of memory (640+380 Kb) or harddisk space
>(20Mb), but I see no indications thereof.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>torkill
>