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Stephen C. Trier (trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu) wrote:
: Well, as has been said, MIME is in use in the Gopher community, where it
: is defined as "a file starting with MIME headers".  I have heard suggestions
: for its use with WAIS, though I think that idea fizzled.  It works with
: Gopher because Gopher already presumes that all text transactions are done
: in US-ASCII or a superset like ISO-8859-1.  Gopher also provides for 8-bit
: binary data.  I don't know which of the two is used by MIME.

There are WAIS servers with MIME encoded data in them - one at Inria,
for example, that has text and pictures in it.  I would not say "fizzled"
would be the right word to describe the reactino to it - the limitation
is much more that good MIME composition tools are just now starting to
show up, and the rare combination of a site that is both up to date on
MIME and up to date on WAIS means the expected audience for a server like
this is small.  (This is of course changing as more MIME stuff gets released,
and as MIME gets worked into gophers.  It takes time.)

(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "138.96.32.21"
   :ip-name "zenon.inria.fr"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "disco-mm-zenon-inria-fr"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "djossou@charly.inria.fr"
   :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Mar  2
17:21:14 1992 by djossou@zenon
The files of type mime used in the index were:   /1/wais/files/disco-mm

Base Multimedia des CDs de l'Agos

Cette source contient des documents MIME (*) decrivant les CD de L agos
a l INRIA SOPHIA
Pour chaque CD vous aurez droit a :
 - Une fiche descriptive
 - L'Image de la pochette
 - 20 sec d'enregistrement d'un morceau representatif

Comme la source disco-charly-inria-fr  cette source permet
de faire des recherches sur:

  - le genre: classique, lyrique, jazz, pop, variete francaise/etrangere
  - l'auteur: ravel, jarrett, somerville, sheller...
  - l'emprunteur (pour savoir ce qui reste chez vous)

Bonne ecoute,
Coco D & GG.

(*) Les documents MIME sont visualisables avec un produit tel que metamail
au besoin ajoutez a votre .Xdefaults la ressource X:

      Xwais.filters: MIME,metam

ou metam  est le script suivant:

#!/bin/sh
xterm -T Metamail -e /bin/sh -c \"metamail $1;sh\"

NOTA: Cette base est en cours de constitution et ne contient pas encore tous les
     CD de la base officielle disco-charly-inria-fr
"
)

  Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
        Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 998 GLOB