From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34168 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorge Godoy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Send compressed postscript as attachment? Date: 09 Jan 2001 16:58:02 -0200 Organization: Conectiva S.A. / Conectiva Inc. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170144 28979 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:15:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E57D049F for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:28:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB19258; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:27:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:27:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (IDENT:root@epithumia.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07875 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:27:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA18351 for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:27:40 -0600 Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07458 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:54:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dagon.conectiva (brutus.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.146]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A13CD049E for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:55:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by dagon.conectiva (Postfix, from userid 550) id 4360640C9B; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:58:04 -0200 (EST) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) X-URL: X-Disclaimer: Unless explicitly stated, opinions on this message are strictly mine In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/21.0.91 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34168 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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.=20 See you, --=20 Godoy. Departamento de Publica=E7=F5es Conectiva S.A. Publishing Department Conectiva Inc.