extcompose(1) UNIX System V (Release 1) extcompose(1)
NAME
extcompose - Compose a reference to external data for
inclusion in a mail message
SYNOPSIS
extcompose file-name
DESCRIPTION
The extcompose program will allow a user on a properly-
equipped workstation to enter the appropriate data to enable
a mail message he is sending to make reference to "external"
data, that is, data that is not included in the mail message
itself but is otherwise available on the network via a
suitable mechanism.
The user will be prompted for all necessary information.
External data may be referenced as local or AFS files, as
files available for FTP (anonymous or authenticated), or as
data available via a mailserver mechanism. The user will be
asked to provide a MIME content-type value to describe the
type of data being referenced, and to specify whether or not
the data has been encoded with one of the algorithms for
encoding data for email. (Such encoding is not necessary,
and is in fact inefficient and silly w hen used with
externally referenced data.)
This program is intended primarily to be called from mailcap
files by programs like mailto(1).
SEE ALSO
showexternal(1), mailto(1), metamail(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc.
(Bellcore)
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
material for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice and this permission
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not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this
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AUTHOR
Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
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