Re: Messages in HTML format

From: Lou Verdon (lverdon@julian.uwo.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:24:56 -0400

In article <wTSK18h/n76S092yn@inter.nl.net>, you wrote:
>Dear readers,
>More and more I receive messages that contain HTML text.
>I'd like to propose to upgrade the YARN message viewer so it
>can support HTML.
>
>If necessary I'm able to help with programming.

Actually, there may be a relatively simple way to do this with Yarn
right now, if we talk to Tim very nicely. Yep accepts an article from
Yarn when a reply command is issued within Yarn. If HTML is contained
in the reply, Yep could be configured to flip the message to a browser
for viewing and even accept a HTML reply from the browser which it could
pass back to Yarn as a reply.

You can configure Yep to use a browser for viewing right now if you
specify your browser as the editor. If I place the line:..

Editor = "d:\netscape\netscape d:\home\yarn\message.yep"

...in my yep.cfg file the message opens in Netscape just fine. You
would need Tim's help to get Yep to handle replies and to go much
further.

Yarn may not need to be altered at all to install the functions that you
wish. BTW, the DOS equivalent of YEP is YES, but I don't know if it
works the same.

Lou

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