extcompose(1)extcompose(1)NAMEextcompose - Compose a reference to external data for inclusion in a
mail message
SYNOPSISextcompose file-name
DESCRIPTION
The extcompose program will allow a user on a properly-equipped work‐
station 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 encod‐
ing data for email. (Such encoding is not necessary, and is in fact
inefficient and silly when used with externally referenced data.)
This program is intended primarily to be called from mailcap files by
programs like mailto(1).
SEE ALSOshowexternal(1), mailto(1), metamail(1)COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1992 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)
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AUTHOR
Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
Release 1 extcompose(1)