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> : I do not think dividing between SunOS, BSD and SysVR4 makes sense.
> : Where would MIXmh fit?
> : 
> : Possibly it would be better to say something like:
> : 
> : 5.x Free MIME for Unix/X           (mixmh)
> : 5.x Free MIME for Unix/Terminals   (mhn, pine)
> : 5.x Free MIME for PC/Windows
> : 5.x Free MIME for PC/character based (pine again, I THINK)
> : 5.x Free MIME for AmigaOS
> : 5.x Free MIME for Macintosh
> : 
> : I don't know enough about NeXT to know whether it is an UNIX or a strange
> : beast, though I suspect the latter....
> 
> Aye, it is a strange beast in that it operates under the NeXTSTEP window
> server, but it does use BSD-like Unix with a Mach kernel.
> 
> The sections should indicate the separate (non-)graphical environments,
> according to your method.
> 	Hence: Unix/X, Unix/NeXTSTEP, Unix/Terminals, etc. etc...

I hope that you will include NeXT in the FAQ somewhere, preferably
as suggested here.  I have a NeXT; it has a very nice proprietary
graphical mail app that allows you to send RTF text, graphics, sound
files, whatever you like.  For instance, if you want to mail a file,
you drag the file's icon into the body of the letter, where it stays.
The person receiving the file drags the icon out of the mail and drops
it where he wants it, and he's done.  Graphics can be pasted in; if
you want to annotate your text with voice you click on the appropriate
button, talk, click again, and a pair of lips appears at the point your
cursor is at.  It's all very nice, seamless, transparent, but there's 
one big catch -- it only works with other NeXT machines.

A few months ago, there was discussion on one of the comp.sys.next
groups about writing some code to allow the NeXT Mail app to use
MIME format messages, but it went nowhere, as far as I know.  If
there is a free MIME for the NeXT I'd love to hear about it.  Even
if there isn't, it might be appropriate for someone knowledgable about
both NeXT and MIME to make some comments in the FAQ.

> Dan Berry			bugs%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
> ==============================> bugs@atlantis.uucp  =========================
> "On a first date, watch how your date treats the waiter, the bartender,
> 	and so on.  That's how she'll be treating YOU after three months."
   ^^^^^^^^^^^
   True -- very true.  Great sig.

Rod Price
rprice@physics.att.com