Re: Super Problem

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Richard Tarara wrote:

> Agreed it doesn't matter much, but out of curiosity, just what do you did
> you do in PINE to see the image.
>
> On a 'modern system' an attachment shows up as some kind of icon (a
> paperclip in Outlook Express) and by double clicking on the icon, the file
> is automatically opened.  I suspect Pine is a little more complex than that
> (which is why I don't use the campus Pine software anymore).  ;-)

Indeed, Pine isn't particularly convenient from this standpoint.  Here's
what I done did and do:   (wink)

My regular procedure is to save the attachment on the remote machine,
transfer it to my desktop machine (either by ftp or simply "printing and
capturing"), and then running "mpack" (a simple and fast BASE64 decoder
for the Mac).  If I got lots of attachments, this routine would probably
get old pretty fast, but I suspect that I decode about 1 attachment each
day and it takes me a minute at most.

I stick with Pine because it allows me access to my mail system that is
indistinguishable from what I get at home, from any machine that is
connected to the internet and has a telnet program (which is just about
every machine in the world!)

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm