From: Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Send compressed postscript as attachment?
Date: 09 Jan 2001 16:58:02 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kp66joh7t1.fsf@dagon.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafhf38spye.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
On 09 Jan 2001, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:
> Suppose I want to send a postscript file in compressed form as a
> MIME attachment, how would I go about this?
>
> Right now, I "gzip foo.ps", then make an attachment using `C-c C-a'
> and specifying foo.ps.gz as file name. But this suggests
> application/octet-stream as content-type.
>
> How do I do this such that the recipient can click on it without
> having to save it to disk first?
If the recipient uses Gnus he can choose the interactive view and use
gv as viewer, he'll have no trouble.
I don't know the MIME type you have to choose... :-( Maybe it's
application/post-script (which is the correct MIME for PostScript
files) but I'm in doubt because of the gzipped form of it.
See you,
--
Godoy. <godoy@conectiva.com>
Departamento de Publicações Conectiva S.A.
Publishing Department Conectiva Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-09 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-09 15:30 Kai Großjohann
2001-01-09 16:01 ` Matthias Wiehl
2001-01-09 23:35 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-01-10 8:27 ` Steinar Bang
2001-01-10 13:49 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-01-09 18:58 ` Jorge Godoy [this message]
2001-01-09 23:37 ` Kai Großjohann
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