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From: adeboer@gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer)
Subject: Re: Hey Syd, here's a couple of ideas!
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.184912.6954@gjetor.geac.COM>
Organization: Geac Canada Ltd.
References: <1991Jun20.044510.781@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1991Jun20.141539.16160@DSI.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 91 18:49:12 GMT

In article <1991Jun20.141539.16160@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) writes:
>>Another complaint is no binary attachments.
>
>This one has been under discussion since 2.2 was being developed.  We
>even, internally, floated a proposal about it.  No one did anything
>with it, partly because the AT&T method, Content-Type:/Content-Length:
>for attachments didn't go anywhere and become a 'global' standard,
>and at that time, not too much need, compared to now.  Plus, at that
>time, most mail transports were not 8 bit clean, so the best
>we could do would be a uuencoded attachment....

Isn't uuencode a defacto standard?  Perhaps a way of improving its interface
to Elm would be for the pager to recognise and skip uuencoded files on
display, but to tag these as attachments and offer appropriate options (like
being able to mkdir/cd to the desired place to park them, from within Elm).

My only really major beef with the pager in the current release is the lack
of a page-backup key.  A line-backup would be nice too.  I tried using less
as my pager for awhile, but losing the "d" and "j" commands made this a
temporary thing.
-- 
Anthony DeBoer  NAUI#Z8800                             adeboer@gjetor.geac.com
Geac Canada Ltd., Toronto                             uunet!geac!gjetor!adeboer