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From: Kosta Kostis
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:35

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Hi there!

Version 1.03 of the ISOPATCH for DOS Waffle is available via anonymous
ftp from:

ftp.th-darmstadt.de:pub/machines/ms-dos/network/waffle/isopatch.zip
                                                       isosrc.zip

       isopatch.zip     contains the binaries
                        
                        copy it to your WAFFLE\BIN directory, extract
                        it and run INSTALL.BAT

       isosrc.zip       contains the sources (ANSI C)
                        
                        includes functions dealing with base64,
                        quoted-printable, MIME-headers (simple), ...

It doesn't make DOS Waffle fully MIME-compliant because not all
MIME-features are covered by the patch, but the following are:

    - converts outgoing mails/news from IBM Code Page 850 to ISO 8859-1
    - adds MIME-headers for outgoing mails/news
    - converts outgoing mails/news to base64 or quoted-printables,
      e. g. if you don't have a 8bit clean path (uses environment
      variables to find out what you want)
    - converts incoming mails (no news, sorry) to 8bit if encoded in
      base64 or quoted-printable automagically
    - converts incoming mails/news from ISO 8859-1 to IBM Code Page 850

It looks like the next version won't be named ISOPATCH anymore...  ;-)

Caution:
    I highly recommend you have your feeds file has the /batch=compress
    qualifier - other names like comp12 or comp16 seem to cause trouble.

    "Hooks" rmail, rnews, compress, comp12 and comp16.

Have fun

        Kosta


-- 
  Kosta Kostis, Talstrasse 25, D-6074 Roedermark 3, Germany
  kosta@blues.kk.sub.org                                        (home)
  please support ISO 8859-x & MIME!           äöüÄÖÜß = aeoeueAEOEUEss

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From: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: ISOPATCH V1.03 with MIME-support available now
Summary: how to create MIME-compliant messages using DOS Waffle
Keywords: MIME ISO8859-1 DOS WAFFLE
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 22:35:08 MET
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