showpartial(1) UNIX System V (Release 1) showpartial(1)
NAME
showpartial - Fetch and display the body of a mail message
that is included by reference
SYNOPSIS
showpartial file id partnum totalnum
DESCRIPTION
The showpartial program will squirrel away the body of a
MIME-format message that is of type "message/partial" for
later use. When it is called on the last piece, it will put
the pieces together and call metamail to display the full
message. It is intended to be called by metamail via a
mailcap entry like the following:
message/partial; showpartial %s %{id} %{number} %{total}
The parts are squirrelled away on /tmp, which means that
/tmp can fill up if you never get the remaining parts. When
the message is finally displayed, via metamail, the parts
are all discarded, and the user is asked whether or not to
delete the file containing the entire message.
SEE ALSO
metamail(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc.
(Bellcore)
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
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AUTHOR
Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
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